Yesterday, I documented The Big Commit, and chronicled at Daily Kos, the diversity, good humor, fun and unapologetic calls for equality that characterized the LGBT’s community’s counter-protest of NOM’s Summer of (Straight People-only) Marriage tour.

Thank god for Courage Campaign and Freedom To Marry who have spent the summer trailing NOM and exposing the hateful underbelly that props up these marriage equality opponents. They released this video of a conversation their crew had with a couple of NOM supporters.

It is truly shocking in it’s hatefulness.

“It’s not about man’s law, it’s about God’s law.”

“God’s laws take precedent over man’s laws.”

“It’s because we love you and we know this is a sin that God will forgive…”

You may or may not have noticed, I don’t spend much time focusing on these types of people. I don’t like to give them the benefit of acknowledgment and affirmation that their viewpoints have validity and deserve to be addressed. (Like, yes, homosexual behavior is observed in nature.)

It is instructive to keep in mind who National Organization for Marriage counts among it’s supporters and allies. NOM has a habit of quoting Rush Limbaugh’s full-throated support. Good luck winning the middle with that.

NOM also gave the niece of Rev. Martin Luther King, Alveda King, a featured speaking slot at one stop. She then proceeded to use the spotlight to prove herself unworthy of his legacy, comparing same-sex marriage to genocide. Alveda appropriately placed in Olbermann’s Worst Persons In the World:

Afterward, she proceed to slander her aunt, Coretta Scott King, for her long-time support of the LGBT community. Nice.

And then there’s this:

National Organization for Marriage would like to present themselves as reasonable and just regular folks, not extremists.

But they had their chance in Judge Walker’s courtroom, to leave their theocracy at the door, and make a reasonable, rational case why the discrimination of LGBT Americans should continue even one more day. They failed miserably. They failed to even find witnesses willing to take the stand. David Bois explained what went wrong for them on Face The Nation:

“But when they come into court and they have to support those opinions and they have to defend those opinions under oath and cross-examination, those opinions just melt away. And that’s what happened here. There simply wasn’t any evidence, there weren’t any of those studies. There weren’t any empirical studies. That’s just made up. That’s junk science. It’s easy to say that on television. But a witness stand is a lonely place to lie. And when you come into court you can’t do that.

Not long ago, I used to feel rather certain I wouldn’t live to see our Federal government recognize full equity in marriage for LGBT Americans.

But, now, I’m feeling more optimistic. The house of cards opponents built on ignorance, scapegoating and hate is beginning to collapse, piece by piece. You can’t argue in a court of law gay marriage is bad because it violates God’s law. And if you’re gonna argue it’s equivalent to genocide, you better bring some evidence to prove the assertion.

These images, these words, these people are not attractive. This is not where America wants to go. This is not where the world is going. NOM and their suppporters whither under the glare of the spotlight, while our team shines. Truth will win out. Love is on our side.