Fighting Back - LGBT agenda

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Last week the nation of Bermuda became the first country in the world to repeal same-sex 'marriage.' We were very active in this victory behind the scenes. I twice met with leaders of the pro-marriage movement in Bermuda to discuss strategies and approaches. We suggested that they push for a national referendum to preserve marriage, which they did, eventually persuading 68% of Bermuda voters to reject gay 'marriage.' After their country's Supreme Court imposed same-sex 'marriage' despite the tremendous electoral outpouring, we advised launching a national petition effort to keep the issue before Parliament, and the coalition followed our advice. Thanks to strong grassroots support for marriage, Parliament passed a new law eradicating gay 'marriage' and it was signed into law last week.

In 2016, NOM was a leading national group urging the Mississippi Legislature to enact HB 1523, comprehensive religious liberty legislation designed to protect people of faith from having to personally participate in the lie of same-sex 'marriage.' We rallied thousands of supporters to get involved in the fight, and played a high-profile role in convincing Governor Phil Bryant to sign the legislation in the face of a ridiculous backlash from LGBT extremists and some liberal corporations. The law has been under constant legal challenge, but the other day the US Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to the law, thus upholding it. This is a tremendous victory for us, the people of Mississippi and common sense.

Last week the state of North Carolina was forced to pay $300,000 to a former state magistrate who was forced from office because she could not in good conscience perform same-sex marriages, which violate her religious beliefs. The courts ruled that longstanding federal law required that an accommodation be made for her. Fortunately, no other magistrate will be subjected to this mistreatment, thanks in part to a 2015 North Carolina law that NOM supported to allow magistrates to refuse to solemnize gay 'marriages' that violate their beliefs. This law has also been upheld despite several challenges, a great accomplishment.


And just last week in California — California! — a court ruled that a Christian baker did not violate the law when she declined to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple because doing so violated her deeply held religious beliefs. This great victory by our friends at Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund should buttress our position in the similar case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado which is now pending before the US Supreme Court. NOM is a leading ally of Jack Phillips and Masterpiece Cakeshop, and we filed an important legal brief with the Supreme Court in the case.


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