Not afraid of dissent

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is the group that was behind the successful anti-marriage campaign in Maine last year. The group is currently on a 23 city tour with a big bus holding rallies. And the crowds! There have been -- wow! -- just tens of people at these events! Yeah, as in less than 100. Some even less than 50. Apparently the host cities are enjoying freedom of listening.

There has been a lot of commentary in gay blogs about the low attendance and even more about NOM's claims to great turnout. One blogger even did an analysis of NOM photos to explain how they used unusual views to make one think the crowd was bigger (no link because the blog is not safe for little kiddies, as rated by the author). But that's not my point today.

A NOM official (the one serving as the bus driver and photographer) has been most upset with the coverage they're getting from the gay blogs. Who'd a thunk? Timothy Kincaid of Box Turtle Bulletin noticed something in those rantings. It appears that NOM official is obsessed and fascinated by gay blogs and the readers who comment on them. We appear to be a community that is not afraid of dissent. We can have multiple perspectives and disagreements and still remain one community.

That aspect of community seems to be quite foreign to NOM and other Fundie organizations. They've been trained to thing there is one true, holy, and universal way to think handed down by Pope and Prophets. It seems they envy our freedom, to challenge and be challenged, to question and grow. We have even escaped the problem of having to be right lest one spend eternity in Hell.

Enjoy your freedom.