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The Daily Show had this segment on a man who was fired for expressing his disapproval of gay marriage, and a child who is harassed in school for refusing to stand up for the Pledge of Allegiance because he believes the government should extend marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples.

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In trying to find more information about both cases, I searched the Internet and stumbled upon the Mass Resistance website. I found out that this organization has been characterized as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Their website seems to be devoted to anti-gay content, and as far as I can tell it was there that the video was first published. Here's a story about the incident from the local news in Boston:




Here's the whole video about Will Phillips: