Oh hell no. Wtf with Gold's? Read the article then go to Change.org to sign the petition.

Robert Rowling, the CEO of TRT Holdings (the owners of Gold's Gym), is spending quite a bit of money this election cycle. Using both his corporate and personal bank accounts, Rowling has given upwards of $2 million to Karl Rove's new organization, American Crossroads. In turn, that money has been used to support some of the most virulently anti-gay politicians in the country.

These politicians include Nevada's Sharron Angle, who once said that gay people should be banned from adopting children and that homosexuality would lead to the downfall of the United States, and Roy Blunt, who wants to rewrite the U.S. Constitution to ban gay marriage.

Meanwhile, Gold's Gym, a company which continues to make Robert Rowling a very rich man, markets and caters to LGBT customers. Should company executives really be giving money to candidates, from corporate accounts no less, who want to take away civil rights for LGBT Americans? Send Gold's Gym a message now, urging them to respond to Rowling's anti-gay political work.

Let Gold's Gym know that you expect better from their company, and that your tired of corporate executives taking money from customers and spending it in order to elect anti-gay politicians."

Love this!

But an upcoming online social network called Friendfactor is adding a new twist: The gay rights-minded site aims to make people -- not causes and information -- the center of its online campaign.

Gay people post profiles on the site and then ask their straight friends to support them in their individual fights for equality.

These 'advocate' pages are part solicitation for help, part online diary -- allowing their creators to post information about their coming-out process and to solicit 'burning questions' from straight friends.
When straight people pledge to support one of their gay friends, they automatically send a digital alert to the page's owner -- the same kind of social feedback as 'liking' a Facebook status update.
Brian Elliot, the site's founder, said the reinforcement, on one hand, tells gay people they're not alone at a time when anti-gay bullying and gay suicide are making headlines."

Check it out here

Ugg, this is awful.

An Inland man body boarding in Santa Barbara County bled to death today after a shark bit off his leg and a nearby surfer pulled him to shore and called for help, authorities said.

University of California, Santa Barbara student Lucas Ransom, 19, from Romoland, was attacked off a Central California beach between 9 a.m. and 9:30 a.m., prompting the closure of three beaches through the weekend, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown told the Lompoc Record.

A friend who was on a surf board brought the man to shore at Surf Beach but the victim bled to death, Brown said.

Authorities could not immediately determine what kind of shark attacked the student.

Finally!!!!

Good news...

Seth Stambaugh, the gay student teacher removed from his position in Oregon last month after he told a student he was gay, will be reinstated.

According to MSNBC, which reported via KGW-TV, Stambaugh will return to his job in the Beaverton School District under an agreement reached between the district and Lewis & Clark College. He was removed from Sexton Mountain Elementary School following a parent complaint and a school district determination that his comments were “inappropriate.”

“At the time of the incident, Stambaugh was paired with a teacher in a fourth-grade class at Sexton Mountain,” reports KGW-TV. “He was leading a writing lesson when a fourth-grader asked him if he was married. Stambaugh said no. The student then asked why. Stambaugh replied that it would be illegal for him to get married because he would be choosing to marry another man. The student then asked if Stambaugh hanged out with guys and he said yes.”

Twenty-two parents of students at the school rallied to the support of Stambaugh, who is expected to make a public statement in a few days. He will return to his job Thursday.

Gay-porn actor Jason Creed faces charges that he choked his three-legged wolf dog, Moonshine, to death in Boca Raton, Fla.

According to the Broward Palm Beach New Times,“The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office claims Thompson took Moonshine to Cole Animal Clinic in Boca Raton on October 7. Thompson told a worker there that the dog had died that morning and he wanted to have Moonshine cremated.”

“A vet technician wasn't buying it. The dog looked like it had signs of blunt trauma. A veterinarian figured out that the dog had died of suffocation, likely from someone choking it.”

The New Times reports that arrest records indicate that witnesses told deputies that Creed, whose real name is Shane Thompson, would hit Moonshine and once boasted that he had bitten off part of the dog’s ear.

A national anti-gay marriage group that wants to run political ads unencumbered by some election law requirements amped up its fight Thursday in two states, including New York, where Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino has taken heat for opposing same-sex marriage.

Obama made a video telling gay youths and anyone who is bullied that it gets better. That douchebag McCain, I'm sure would not have made one...

So sad...

Oakland University campus police reportfinding no evidence that antigay bullying contributed to the suicide of 19-year-old sophomore Corey Jackson.

Jackson was found deadTuesday outdoors on the Rochester, Mich., campus. His grandmother and aunt told reporters he had come out recently and, despite being accepted by family members, was struggling to adjust. They said they believed bullying led Jackson to take his own life.

Again, get out and vote Cali gays!!! Watch the video below...

Less than 24 hours after a federal judge refused to block an injunction against "don't ask, don't tell," the U.S. court of appeals for the ninth circuit has done so — at least temporarily.

A three-judge panel ordered a stay requested by the Justice Department "temporarily in order to provide this court with an opportunity to consider fully the issues presented" in the federal lawsuit against DADT, waged by the Log Cabin Republicans since 2004.

A liberal political action committee has produced a video urging California's gay voters to vote on November 2 for attorney general candidate Kamala Harris if they hope to do away with Prop. 8.

Harris, the current Democratic San Francisco city attorney, has promised if elected not to defend the antigay ballot measure should it make its way to the Supreme Court — federal judge Vaughn Walker ruled Prop. 8 unconstitutional in August and antigay groups are currently attempting to appeal his decision. Harris's opponent, Los Angeles city attorney Steve Cooley, has vowed to do the opposite.!!

Life in prison, with parole possible after 20 years. That was the sentence handed down Wednesday to a Saudi prince convicted of a killing so lurid it has shocked even London, with its long history of tawdry sex crimes dating back to Jack the Ripper.


The victim, Bandar Abdulaziz, had so many internal injuries, including bleeding on the brain and a fractured larynx, that pathologists could not pinpoint the precise cause of death after his body was found in the posh Landmark Hotel.

The killer was a Saudi prince who tried in vain to hide his homosexuality from the court and had been filmed on a closed-circuit camera mercilessly beating the victim – his paid manservant – in the hotel elevator.

The frenzied killing, and the erotic nude photos of the victim found on the prince’s mobile phone, have embarrassed the Saudi royal family, which has refused to comment on the matter. The case is not receiving press attention inside Saudi Arabia.

Justice David Bean told the killer, Prince Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser Al Saud, that no man, even a royal, was above the law. He said it would be wrong for him to allow the prince’s royal status to influence the severity of the sentence.

The judge said Saud had cruelly taken advantage of Abdulaziz before killing him in a rage.

“You killed Abdulaziz in the course of a sustained and ferocious assault,” Bean said. “You were in a position of domination over him, as demonstrated both by the lift (elevator) incident and by the sexually explicit photographs you took of him, at some point prior to Feb. 15, which were found on your mobile phone. Abdulaziz was a vulnerable victim, entirely subjugated to your will. You were in a position of authority and trust over him which you exploited ruthlessly.”

Violence is never the answer...

Big Brother 10 star turned gay porn actor Steven Daigle was arrested Monday night in West Hollywood after allegedly beating up his boyfriend.

According to TMZ, Daigle was arrested and booked for misdemeanor battery while his boyfriend, fellow porn star Trent Locke, was rushed to the hospital.

Locke blogged about the fight from his hotel room, saying "deeply embarrassed" about the incident and that he "would never take a swing at [Steven]. And I did not."

As of Wednesday, Daigle is still being held on a $20,000 bail.

I posted about this story the other day. The Boy Scouts, claim they are an organization "dedicated" to preparing young boys for "exceptional adulthood", as long as you are not a homosexual or an atheist that is.In a time when young teenage boys are killing themselves because they are gay, the Boy Scouts should be ashamed of themselves for sending such a HATE filled message...The measure of a man, has nothing to do with sexual orientation, only how one conducts themselves as a human being and that they treat other people with the respect and the acceptance each person in this country deserves...That should be their policy... The Scouts do not allow gays or atheist to be leaders or members. Nice message they are sending to children.

The father of a 9-year-old Cub Scout said Tuesday he has been forced out of a leadership role with the organization and ordered not to wear its uniform because of his sexual orientation.


Jon Langbert of Dallas, Texas, who is openly gay, told HLN's "Prime News" that he had been wearing the shirt the Scouts gave him last year with pride. The shirt identified him as a member of the leadership team that was selling popcorn for a Scout fundraiser.

But that all changed last week. "Everything was running along smoothly until some of the dads complained," he said. When the complaints rose to a higher level of the Scout leadership, he was asked to stop wearing the shirt and give up his leadership role, he said.

"It made me feel terrible to think about the devastating effect it would have on my son, to see his father stripped of his leadership role," Langbert told CNN affiliate WFAA-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth. "It brought tears to my eyes."

A Scout Circle Ten Council official said Langbert was never registered as a leader in the first place.
"We do have a policy that avowed gays and atheists are not allowed to be a registered leader or member of Boy Scouts of America," said Pat Currie, Scout executive with the Circle Ten Council. "It's a longstanding policy."

In a telephone interview, Boy Scouts of America director of public relations Deron Smith told CNN that the discussion has no place in Scouting.

"We focus on our mission, and our mission is to take young people and prepare them for an exceptional adulthood," he said. "That's it. That's why our policy is the way it is. Our volunteer leadership has elected to keep that policy in place."

People please. Wtf? It is a magazine cover, get over it. The 3 cast members portray high school students for god sakes. People are insane....
The Parents Television Council has released a statement thrashing producers for allowing Dianna Agron, Cory Monteith and Lea Michele to participate in a "hyper-sexualized" photo shoot for the November issue of GQ -- despite the fact that both actresses are 24 years old and Corey is 28.

The PTC declares, “It is disturbing that GQ, which is explicitly written for adult men, is sexualizing the actresses who play high school-aged characters on ‘Glee’ in this way. It borders on pedophilia."

The statement continues, "By authorizing this kind of near-pornographic display, the creators of the program have established their intentions on the show’s direction. And it isn’t good for families."

via TMZ

Alec Baldwin appears in a new video for Fight Back New York, the PAC dedicated to unseating state senators who voted against marriage equality last year, to discuss the only reason why he cannot marry Jesse Tyler Ferguson.

The video continues a joke that started last summer, when Ferguson appeared in a video for the PAC and professed his desire to marry Baldwin after a marriage bill finally passes. In the new installment, Baldwin says that the New York state senate is the only thing standing in their way.

Rudolf Brazda, who may be the last surviving man deported to a concentration camp by the Nazis for being gay, remembers his time as a prisoner at Buchenwald.

Brazda, 97, spoke for a video interview with Yagg, the French gay news source. His testimony was previously the subject of Itinerary of a Pink Triangle, a book by Jean-Luc Schwab.

“The son of Tcheckoslovaquian immigrants in Germany, Rudolf Brazda was 20 when Hitler rose to power,” reports Yagg. “He had lived his homosexuality freely and openly until the law penalizing homosexuality, the notorious ‘Paragraph 175,’ was toughened by the Nazi regime. On August 8, 1942, after having gone to prison twice, he was sent to the concentration camp of Buchenwald, where he was given the number 7952, and a pink triangle.”

Last month's suicide of a gay Rutgers University freshman and the subsequent beatings and torture in the Bronx of two teenagers suspected of being gay demonstrate the dangers of measures such as Proposition 8, a lawyer for opponents of the initiative told a federal appeals court late Monday.

"Incidents such as these are all too familiar to our society," wrote Theodore B. Olson, who is representing two gay couples challenging the 2008 California anti-gay marriage initiative. "And it is too plain for argument that discrimination written into our constitutional charters inexorably leads to shame, humiliation, ostracism, fear, and hostility. The consequences are all too often very, very tragic."

Olson cited the two events, which occurred days apart, in written arguments filed with the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The court is considering an appeal of a district judge’s ruling that struck down Proposition 8 as unconstitutional.

Olson said the "unmistakable purpose and effect" of Proposition 8 was "to isolate gay men and lesbians and their relationships as separate, unusual, dangerous, and unworthy of the marital relationship."

Olson's arguments referred to the suicide of Tyler Clementi, 18, who jumped off the George Washington Bridge after his roommate streamed video to the Internet of Clementi in a gay sexual encounter. The other incident a few days later involved an alleged anti-gay attack by a gang in an unoccupied apartment in the Bronx.

Love this. A sit-in at Grand Central Station in NY, for all the gays that have died because of homophobia.

A U.S. District Court judge in California has denied the Obama administration's request for an emergency stay of her injunction against enforcement of the military's ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly.


The government's next step is to appeal Judge Virginia Phillips' order to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

In rejecting the stay request, Phillips wrote that the administration had failed to show it would be "irrevocably harmed" by the ruling or that it would be likely to succeed on appeal.

"The injury to interested parties here is violation of the constitutional rights of service members to due process and freedom of speech and to petition the government, rights which were vindicated during the course of the trial," she wrote.

She disputed the administration's contention that not issuing a stay would damage military unit cohesion and readiness.

Roger Sterling, the character played by John Slattery on “Mad Men,” is no poster boy for marriage.
Roger has been married twice, and in Season Four, just ended, viewers learned that he is not too happy with wife No. 2. In real life, however, Mr. Slattery is hoping his support will help an effort to legalize marriage for gay men and lesbians.

Mr. Slattery will appear in a video clip in favor of same-sex marriage in New York State, joining other well-known residents like Julianne Moore, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Joan Rivers and Kenneth Cole.
The videos are being produced by the HRC Campaign for New York Marriage, part of the gay-rights organization known as the Human Rights Campaign.

Sony Music Holdings Inc. has agreed to pay a former employee of its compact disc manufacturing plant in Pitman (Gloucester) $20,000 to resolve allegations the man was regularly harassed in the workplace because of his sexual orientation, the state Division on Civil Rights announced Tuesday.

Sony Music, doing business as Sony DADC, has already paid former machine operator Charles E. Morgan the settlement. In addition, Sony has agreed to provide Morgan a neutral reference if contacted by prospective employers in the future. Under the settlement, Sony makes no admission of wrongdoing.

"This is a fair settlement that resolves serious allegations — allegations of on-the-job bullying and harassment based on a person's sexual orientation and a purported failure by management to effectively deal with the situation," Civil Rights Director Chinh Q. Le said. "There simply can be no tolerance for the kind of harassment alleged in this case. It is denigrating, it is unlawful and we are committed to holding accountable any employer who fails to address it."

Morgan, of Philadelphia, was hired by Sony in a temporary capacity as a machine operator in October 2008. Morgan charged in his original complaint that, on at least three different occasions between May 2009 and August 2009, he approached Sony management to report being harassed on the job. Specifically, he complained on one occasion that his co-workers were making offensive comments about his homosexuality.

On another occasion, Morgan reported that slurs were written about him in graffiti near his work site, and on a men's room wall. On Aug. 15, 2009, Morgan reported that a Sony co-worker told him "you're too gay to sit here." Morgan alleged that, even after he reported the alleged harassment to Sony DADC managers, no action was taken. Instead, Morgan charged, Sony committed an act of reprisal by denying him promotion to full-time, permanent status as a machine operator.

A Pentagon spokeswoman says recruiters have been told they must accept gay applicants, following a federal court decision striking down the ban on gays serving openly in the military, the Associated Press is reporting.
As The Advocate reported last Thursday, the Department of Defense issued new orders via e-mail late Thursday afternoon informing all five branches of the military that they must comply with an injunction ordered by a federal judge on enforcement of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” according to Pentagon spokeswoman Cynthia Smith.

“The Department of Defense will of course obey the law, and the email noted that, in the meantime, the Department will abide by the terms in the court's ruling, effective as of the time and date of the ruling,” Cynthia Smith said in an e-mail. “Earlier today, the Staff Judge Advocate Generals [J.A.G.] from the Military Services, in consultation with the OSD Office of General Counsel, sent to their Service Staff Judge Advocate counterparts in the field an email informing them of the ruling by Judge Virginia Phillips of the Central District of California.”

 
London, England (CNN) -- A Saudi prince was found guilty Tuesday of murdering an aide at a London hotel in February, in a case which prosecutors said had a sexual element.
Prince Saud Abdulaziz Bin Nasser Al Saud was found guilty of both murder and grievous bodily harm in the killing of Bandar Abdulaziz.

Abdulaziz died after a severe beating left him with swelling and bruising of the brain and fractured ribs and neck. He also had bite marks on his face, ears and arm.
The prince had not denied killing the aide, but said he had not intended to do so. He is due to be sentenced Wednesday.

We knew this was they only reason behind Prop 8...

(San Francisco) Lawyers for the city of San Francisco are firing back at gay marriage opponents who want an appeals court to overturn the judge who struck down California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex unions.
In a brief filed with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Monday, the city attorney’s office said Proposition 8’s sponsors failed to make a sound case for preventing homosexuals from marrying while leaving intact their rights to raise children.

The lawyers argued that the 2008 ban’s only purpose was to deny same-sex couples of “the honored stature” of marriage and to avoid having anyone “view gay relationships as ‘OK.’”

This is beyond disturbing. Uganda and Most off Africa must be boycotted...They are disgusting....This blatant discrimination and advocating of killing homosexuals is beyond human thinking. These people are animals and the rest of the world supports their behavior by supplying aid and help to countries like this...I am beyond disgusted. Where are these celebrities speaking out and doing something about this barbaric behavior?

(Kampala, Uganda) The front-page newspaper story featured a list of Uganda’s 100 “top” homosexuals, with a bright yellow banner across it that read: “Hang Them.” Alongside their photos were the men’s names and addresses.
In the days since it was published, at least four gay Ugandans on the list have been attacked and many others are in hiding, according to rights activist Julian Onziema. One person named in the story had stones thrown at his house by neighbors.

A lawmaker in this conservative African country introduced a bill a year ago that would have imposed the death penalty for some homosexual acts and life in prison for others. An international uproar ensued, and the bill was quietly shelved.

But gays in Uganda say they have faced a year of harassment and attacks since the bill’s introduction.
The legislation was drawn up following a visit by leaders of U.S. conservative Christian ministries that promote therapy they say allows gays to become heterosexual.

“Before the introduction of the bill in parliament most people did not mind about our activities. But since then, we are harassed by many people who hate homosexuality,” said Patrick Ndede, 27. “The publicity the bill got made many people come to know about us and they started mistreating us.”

Seth Stambaugh, the Oregon teacher fired after he told a fourth-grader that he was not married because he is gay, spoke out in an interview for the first time.

Towleroad.com reports that Stambaugh spoke with local station KGW and talked about feeling hurt, and his desire to return to his teaching career. The decision rests with the superintendent. Some parents interviewed expressed support for Stambaugh.

New York (CNN) -- A former JetBlue flight attendant -- who reportedly cursed a passenger over a plane's public address system, deployed the plane's emergency evacuation slide, and used it to dramatically exit a flight at JFK airport in August -- pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted criminal mischief as part of a plea deal with prosecutors.

Steven Slater pleaded guilty to second-degree attempted criminal mischief, a felony, and fourth-degree attempted criminal mischief, a misdemeanor. Under terms of the plea deal, he must enter a yearlong mental health program. During the program, he must take assigned medications and not get arrested. If he does not comply, he could receive between one and three years in jail.

A Fort Smith couple demanded change Wednesday after they say their 15-year-old daughter was suspended for wearing clothes that support gay pride. The teen's parents say a t-shirt cost the Ramsey Junior High School student three days suspension.

The teenager wore a t-shirt to school Tuesday with phrases like "100% gay pride," "proud to be a lesbian," and "support homosexual love" written on it. The teen's father, David King, said, "It's not profane. It's not vulgar and if it offends somebody they need to get over it."

King says administrators asked his daughter to change the shirt, but when she refused she received a three day suspension. "I'm not a homosexual rights activist. I don't agree with it, but just because I don't agree with something doesn't make it wrong," said King.

The Fort Smith School District would not comment specifically about the incident, but did confirm they suspended a student at Ramsey Junior High School for insubordination. "If they refuse to change their clothes the issue then becomes not what they're wearing, but their response to the direction from the school administrator," said Dr. Gordon Floyd, Deputy Superintendent for Fort Smith Public Schools.

District leaders say students have the right to express themselves through clothing, but if it disrupts school it is not allowed. "There's just a line between expressing yourself and doing so in such a manner that becomes a disruptive in the school," said Dr. Floyd.

School leaders say if a student is suspended he or she cannot make up the work. David King and his wife officially filed a complaint with the school involving the incident.

In a powerful OpEd piece for The Amsterdam News, he takes on homophobia in the African-American community. He weaves the stories of the epidemic of suicides and hate crimes with the hypocrisy of Atlanta minister Eddie Long. The article is a must read for everyone. Here are some heady excerpts:

Homophobia is rampant in Black America, and it is driven by preachers like Long, described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as one of the most virulently homophobic Black leaders in the religiously based anti-gay movement. Black Christians are more likely to describe homosexuality as morally wrong than white Christians, and homosexuality is a major topic among many Black pulpits.

Mr. Bond continues:

Bible-based discrimination is an old story for Black Christians, and it is peculiar why we tolerate it against others when we reject it when aimed at us. White Christians found support for enslaving people of color in the Bible’s pages, which also offers support for condemning homosexuality.

Some who object to gay rights believe homosexuality is a choice, but science has demonstrated conclusively that sexual disposition is not an option or alternative that some select. It exactly parallels race—I was born Black and had no choice. I couldn’t and wouldn’t change it. Like race, sexuality isn’t a preference—it is immutable, unchangeable and the Constitution protects us all against prejudice and discrimination based on immutable differences.

The consensus of the scientific world is that homosexuality is as ordinary as left-handedness—it is not an illness or disease.

via davidmixner

U.S district judge Virginia A. Phillips issued a tentative ruling Monday rejecting the government’s request for a stay in the injunction against “don’t ask, don’t tell" but will issue a formal ruling by late Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning.

During the 25-minute hearing, Phillips wasted no time in rejecting the government's arguments that barring dadt immediately would be an undue burden on the military and called the justice department's declarations to the court both vague and insufficient.

Assistant U.S attorney Paul Freeborne asked the court for a five day administrative stay so it can pursue an appeal of the injunction to the U.S. court of appeals for the ninth circuit.

The suck ass company known as Walmart, is selling an anti-gay children s book.

More than 100 Walmart stores are selling a book for kids and parents that suggests gay people can overcome “sin” and convert to heterosexuality with the help of counseling, according to Q Salt Lake.

Chased by an Elephant: The Gospel Truth About Today’s Stampeding Sexuality is written by Janice Barrett Graham, whose husband, Stephen, runs the antigay group Standard of Liberty.

In the book’s introduction Graham says she wrote the book to “help shed the clear light of truth on today’s dark and tangled ideas about male and female, proper gender roles, the law of chastity, and the God-given sexual appetite.”

Graham’s son Andrew claims he successfully changed his sexual orientation and is now a happily married man. In his book Captain of My Soul, Andrew Graham writes that he was “lured into same gender internet pornography during his high school years, and recruited into cursory homosexual experimentation with older men while at Brigham Young University.”

In a lame attempt at being "cool," the Vatican's official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano yesterday wrote, "Few people know it, and he does everything he can to hide it, but it is true: Homer J Simpson is a Catholic." Uh, ok.

The article, simply titled "Homer and Bart are Catholics," makes the claim that the lovable, beer guzzling fat ass Homer Simpson deep down is a real deal Catholic. The paper cites as evidence of the Simpsons' faith the fact that the cartoon family "recites prayers before meals and, in their own peculiar way, believes in the life thereafter." The church in the past has said it is ok for Catholics to watch The Simpsons, but now they're adopting him as a fellow believer. The Vatican doesn't mind that Homer sleeps during church and serves up "never-ending humiliation" on neighbor Ned Flanders, because he really is a true believer, according to the Telegraph.

 
According to The Huffington Post, McCain spoke in a pretaped interview for Sunday Square-Off on Arizona’s Channel 12.

“When asked how far he would go to prevent an attempt to repeal the controversial policy from being approved in the upper congressional chamber, McCain responded by saying, ‘Absolutely I will filibuster or stop it from being brought up until we have a thorough and complete study on the effect of morale and battle effectiveness.’”
McCain, who is up for reelection this year, leads Democratic challenger Rodney Glassman in polls. He notes that if he wins, and Republicans win a Senate majority, he would become the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

NOM is nothing but pathetic and disgusting...

The National Organization for Marriage is using the voice and image of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., in a new ad that urges Minnesota voters to support gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, who wants a public vote against marriage equality.

According to The Minnesota Independent, NOM president Brian Brown said in a statement Thursday, “We want the voters of Minnesota to know the facts about their rights and where the candidates stand on marriage. Just as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., fought for the civil rights of Americans, we echo his words to give people the ballot and let the people vote!”

The radio ad was turned into a web video.

"Give us the ballot," says King in the spot.

NOM has used the likeness of MLK in previous antigay ads, but his relatives insist that he would not have supported a vote against the rights of others, according to the Independent.