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Friday, April 8, 2011

Homo Anti-Gay Marriage Leader Switches Sides... and Takes NOM's Facebook With Him

Posted by Sarah Mirk on Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:44 PM

The internet is aflame with the news that the social media director for the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), Louis Marinelli, switched sides this week, coming out in support of gay marriage. When Marinelli defected, he shut down NOM's Facebook page, essentially deleting its 290,000 fans.

Read the whole story over at Towleroad, but the gist is that Marinelli had so many conversations about gay marriage on NOM's tours across the country that he eventually changed his mind on the topic.

Basic Rights Oregon points out that the conversion through conversation is exactly what their campaign to get gay marriage passed in Oregon is all about. From their blog: "We know that conversations matter. By talking to friends and family about the freedom to marry, we change hearts and minds."

 

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Heartening news! I hope a lot more minds will change.
Posted by Todd Mecklem on April 9, 2011 at 8:43 AM · Report
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… and they say there's no justice in the world.
Posted by Samuel John Klein on April 9, 2011 at 8:56 AM · Report

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