Anti-Gay Activist: Gay Rights Groups Stole The Rainbow From Us!

[meegbear]

An activist for a sub-group of the anti-gay group the National Organization for Marriage is speaking out against the use of the rainbow as a symbol for gay rights. "We are the real rainbow coalition. The gay lobby does not own the rainbow," she said.

Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse is the founder and president of the Ruth Institute, which describes itself as "a project of the National Organization for Marriage." On its site, the group describes its mission statement as "to promote life-long married love to college students by creating an intellectual and social climate favorable to marriage."

Becky Yeh of right-wing American Family News Network's OneNewsNow, a product of the American Family Association, writes that Morse says "the rainbow is a sign of God's covenant with man." Morse told ONN: "Proposition 8 was passed by a great grassroots coalition that included people from all across the religious traditions, and also people of every race and color. We are the real rainbow coalition. The gay lobby does not own the rainbow."

Morse continued: "We can't simply let that go by. Families put rainbows in their children's nurseries. Little Christian preschools will have rainbows...Noah's Ark and all the animals.... Those are great Christian symbols, great Jewish symbols." She also described how she wore a rainbow scarf to the Prop 8 hearings to show that anti-gay marriage activists still own the symbol.

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[msongs]

1. why do christians love divorce so much if they have such great family values? nt

[Lucky 13]

2. Double rainbow, double rainbow cross the sky!!

[hobbit709]

3. Have these idiots talked to Jesse Jackson?

[Aristus]

4. So what are they going to do? Copyright a rainbow?

Get a life, you stupid, homophobic fuckheads! :mad::grr::mad::grr:

[HopeHoops]

5. WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

Get a fucking grip, people.

[justiceischeap]

6. I'm a little surprised they don't want to co-opt the pink triangle

Hitler loved it for the gays, why shouldn't the Xtians?

[rurallib]

7. the phrase 'delusional dumb fuck' comes to mind.

[meow mix]

8. lol.. she cant look at a rainbow without thinking hateful things

problem might be her black heart

[EFerrari]

9. "I was the Walrus, Paul wasn't the Walrus, I was just saying that to be nice."

:rofl:

[Capitalocracy]

10. (Dr. Evil voice) Riiiiiiight...

First of all, yeah, OK, you had people on your side across all races and religions, blah blah blah. You think there weren't people of all the same races and religions who voted against it?

And second of all, you want the rainbow? Take it. See how that works out for you. Maybe after they put a rainbow bumper sticker on their car for a couple of days they'll figure out what it's like to be gblt in the U.S. and what their hatemongering supports.

[TlalocW]

11. And of course, everyone is completely forgetting about

The poor Leprechauns and their claims to the rainbow.

TlalocW

[lightningandsnow]

12. We totally need to convince them to wear more rainbows.

Rainbow booty shorts, that is.

[Jamastiene]

13. Yeah, and we aren't giving it back either, fuckers.

Explain that shit to your kids when they grow up and turn out to be pro-gay. Explain to them that rainbows are all of a sudden bad, even though you taught them all those years that rainbows were good.

I've actually seen that happen before, believe it or not. Kids grew up to be pro-gay rights because it just wasn't right to cut certain people off from appreciating rainbows. Their parents were astonished and miserable. I laughed my fucking ass off at the parents in that situation. Kids grew up to refuse to hate gay people, because they were sick and tired of being preached at about it by stubborn old codgers who wouldn't get off their hate-mobiles. It was two kids. Both are grown and pro-gay now. :evilgrin:

Yeah, try that, dipshits. You'll learn the hard way, have kids that grow up not to hate gay people and we'll have another generation of pro-gay ex-Christians who will officiate gay weddings of the future while we laugh our asses off at your curmudgeonly hateful grumpy asses.

Been there. Done that. Yeah, we stole the rainbows and we aren't giving them back, fuckers. Deal with it.

[justiceischeap]

14. Just one more thing that needs to be pointed out -- OUR rainbow is different

"Conventional Rainbow"



Gay Pride Rainbow



Notice that the Gay Pride rainbow only has 6 colors where as the "conventional" rainbow has 7. Our flag is missing/left out Indigo.

[TlalocW]

17. Which is ironic

Considering the Indigo Girls.

TlalocW

[gratuitous]

18. And the gay rainbow is straight

Really weird.

Anyway, those poor dears at NOM. Not one original thought rattling around in all those empty little heads, is there?

[pipi_k]

15. Never mind pro- and anti-gay groups and leprechauns....

Wasn't Noah the first one to see the rainbow?

Technically, he's got dibs on it...

[Stevenmarc]

16. Skittle Envy