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Matt Barber, the Director of Cultural Affairs with the so-called Liberty Counsel, said on his program this week that the children of gay couples are nothing more than “little props.”

Michele Bachmann believes marriage is between a man and a woman. She believes states, like New York, have the right to decide that marriage is not between a man and a woman. She believes that marriage should be decided by the individual states. She believes that the federal government should ban same-sex marriages.

In response to New York marriage equality, post-mortem televangelist Pat Robertson has come out strong with a warning: America is defying God, and it could be facing his wrath, much like the ancient city of Sodom that the Bible alleges God destroyed with “fire and brimstone.”

Anti-gay bullying is not bullying at all; in fact, it is “peer pressure and is healthy.” That’s according to Rich Swier, an activist with the Tea Party Nation. Swier was responding to a report from a Florida group that showed that “77% of all bullying victims are picked on due to sexual orientation, gender identity, […]

From WorldNetDaily, Ted Baehr writes that New York’s marriage equality law is in violation of the Constitution because the Constitution is supposed to conform to “God’s law.”

David Frum, a staunch conservative who once said that those who support same-sex marriage “are hastening a process of social dissolution that has already brought misery to untold millions of people,” now supports marriage equality.

If you thought that Evangelicals had a monopoly on homophobia and religious bigotry, you were wrong. Check out this little diatribe, from Catholic Archbishop Timothy Doaln of New York.

From Steven Thrasher at the Village Voice comes this insane interview with Rubén Díaz Sr., the lone Democrat in the New York State Senate standing in opposition to marriage equality for same-sex couples.

While the debate over marriage equality continues to rage in Albany, one legislator from Clinton County, New York, fears that an HIV epidemic will break out in the Empire State if gay couples are allowed to marry.

Finally, it seems like marriage equality in New York will see a vote today. The vote has been held up over wrangling on other issues and debate over language regarding religious exemptions in the bill.