Anti-Gay Group Removes "Real Love" Video From Site

WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign’s NOM Exposed project submitted a video on marriage equality to the National Organization for Marriage’s Ruth Institute. The Institute put out a “Reel Love” video challenge calling for submissions explaining “what makes lifelong love possible.” One of the judging criteria the Ruth Institute specifies is that videos must “convey how lifelong love between one man and one woman is possible.”

In spite of the fact that HRC’s video was posted on the Institute’s website, it was removed an hour later. A screenshot of the video displayed on the Ruth Institute site is available here.

The NOM Exposed video seeks to show that all love is equal. In the video, one woman and one man each speak about what love means to them: “Love is when you care about somebody else’s happiness more than your own. It brings out our compassion, our kindness and our sense of commitment,” says the woman. “No matter what life throws our way, we know we’ll have each other. That’s what love means to us,” adds the man, as the camera reveals a female couple and male couple. 

“The truth is that LGBT Americans form loving and committed relationships,” said Kevin Nix, HRC’s NOM project director. “The Ruth Institute’s discriminatory guidelines reflect NOM’s agenda to stigmatize and minimize loving same-sex relationships.”