John Corvino's new series of YouTube videos is a godsend for supporters of marriage equality all over the country—but they're going to be particularly helpful for supporters of marriage equality in Washington state, Maine, Maryland, and Minnesota, all states where marriage is on the ballot this November.

Professor John Corvino is intimately familiar with NOM’s arguments, having just published a book with NOM’s co-founder Maggie Gallagher. In the book, Debating Same-Sex Marriage (Oxford Univ. Press, 2012) he dismantles Gallagher’s position and makes a powerful case for marriage equality. Now, in a new series of nine short videos, he distills the arguments down to their core elements and makes them accessible to a wider audience. The videos are about 3 minutes long each, with a total running time of under a half hour. Displaying Corvino’s trademark combination of logical precision, sensitivity and humor, the videos offer powerful rebuttals to familiar objections, such as “If gay marriage, why not polygamy?” and “Marriage by definition requires a man and a woman.” While dismantling the arguments one by one, Corvino also sets the stage for a more positive dialogue.

I'll be posting one of John's videos to Slog each day for the next nine days. Or you can watch all of them right now by clicking here. For more info about John go to his website.

Have family or friends who are planning to vote against marriage equality this fall? Ask them to spend a half an hour watching John's videos before they vote against the civil rights of their gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans fellow citizens.