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ME: Anti Gay Groups Join Forces to Fight Marriage Equality Referendum

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

NOM LogoThe Christian Civic League of Maine and the National Organization for Marriage say they’ve combined forces to defeat the same-sex marriage referendum proposal on next November’s ballot.

The chairman of Protect Marriage Maine, Rev. Bob Emrich, says it will organize groups of different faiths as well as people with no faith traditions at all in opposition to the ballot initiative. Maine voters defeated a gay marriage proposal that was on the 2009 ballot.

Christian Civic League Executive Director Carroll Conley says his group was not a major player in the 2009 campaign, but he believes it can play a major role in the campaign this year.

Full Story from The Republic

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USA: NOM’s Starbucks Boycott Flops

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

Starbucks BoycottNational Organization for Marriage’s DumpStarbucks campaign, which is NOM’s attempt to punish Starbucks for supporting marriage equality, went international on April 10, running online ads in Egypt, Beijing, Hong Kong, the Yunnan region of China, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait in the languages Mandarin, Arabic, Turkish, Spanish and Bahala.

By April 10th, before their international campaign kick-off, NOM had garnered about 30,400 domestic signatures on their boycott petition.
April 10.

One week later, after running online ads in some of the most anti-gay countries on Earth, NOM has netted all of 1,500 additional signatures.

Full Story from Pam’s House Blend

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USA: NOM’s Twitter Feed, Facebook Page Also Hacked, With Hilarious Results

Thursday, April 12th, 2012

NOM LogoAbsolutely hilarious. At first blush it was thought that the National Organization for Marriage was apologizing for its race-baiting tactics. Jeremy Hooper of GoodAsYou reported that both the anti-LGBT org’s Facebook page and Twitter account also seemed to reflect a change in attitude.

The web site is now “down for maintenance.” We’ll see if Brian Brown can get his hate machine’s act together before we can enjoy much more of this. The Washington Blade:

Though this could be the result of an industrious hacker, if the posts are not actually the words of NOM, they could be the result of another staff defector. In April 2011, Louis Marinelli, who guided NOM’s social media presence to that point.

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NOM Will Endorse Romney

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

NOM LogoThe National Organization for Marriage will endorse Mitt Romney today, Politico reports:

In a statement, NOM president Brian Brown will urge conservatives to get behind Romney: “Now is the time for all people who recognize the importance of marriage to come together to support a true champion, Mitt Romney, against an incumbent who has done virtually everything in his power to undermine the institution of marriage.”

“Governor Romney was an early signer of NOM’s presidential pledge which represents his commitment to the nation to take specific actions as president to preserve and protect marriage as the union of one man and one woman,” Brown’s message says.

Full Story from Towleroad.com

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USA: NOM Site Hacked?

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

Early this morning, prominent National Organization for Marriage watchdog Jeremy Hooper of the GoodAsYou.org blog reported that both the NOM Facebook page and Twitter account posted strange tweets that seem to indicate a change of heart.

UPDATE: NOM’S blog site seems to be “down for maintenance” after the uncharacteristic post was discovered. This could more clearly indicate the post is the result of a hacker or rogue employee, rather than a change is course.

UPDATE 2: After posting another tweet that confirmed the errant messages did not originate from the organization’s leadership, the Twitter account seems to have been disabled.

Full Story from The Washington Blade

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NOM Threatens Investigation of HRC Over Released Tax Returns

Friday, April 6th, 2012

NOM LogoThe National Organization for Marriage claims either Human Rights Campaign or an IRS official broke the law by releasing and disseminating the hateful group’s 2008 tax returns listing their major donors, including Mitt Romney. Now NOM president Brian Brown is floating the threat of a federal investigation.

“The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), today demanded a federal investigation of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to determine who was responsible for releasing NOM’s confidential federal tax return information to the Huffington Post,” the group wrote on their blog.

Brown, that perpetual victim, included his personal take:

It appears that someone with either the IRS or the HRC may have committed a federal crime by illegally obtaining and then releasing a confidential tax return of the National Organization for Marriage.

Full Story from Towleroad.com

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USA: Romney PAC Donated $10,000 to NOM in 2008

Sunday, April 1st, 2012

Mitt RomneyA Mitt Romney state political action committee gave $10,000 to the anti-gay marriage group National Organization for Marriage (NOM).

According to documents released Friday by gay rights advocate Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the Free & Strong America PAC Alabama, a state-level PAC that has raised and distributed money on behalf of Romney, made the donation in 2008.

At the time, NOM was working to approve Proposition 8, California’s gay marriage ban. Internal documents released this week in connection with a Maine court case outline NOM’s strategy to pit minority groups against supporters of gay marriage.

Full Story from On Top Magazine

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USA: Freedom to Marry Asks GOP Presidential Candidates to Renounce Anti Marriage Equality Pledge

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

Freedom to MarryFollowing the release of internal strategy memos of the so-called National Organization for Marriage (NOM), which call for the use of race as a means of impeding the freedom to marry for same-sex couples, Freedom to Marry joined AMERICAblog’s call on GOP candidates, all of whom took a NOM pledge to push for a Federal Marriage Amendment, nominate anti-marriage judges to the Supreme Court and appoint an anti-marriage Attorney General, among other anti-freedom to marry actions to renounce their pledge.

“Now that NOM’s race-baiting strategy of pitting American against American, minority against minority, and family members against family members is out in the open, we call on GOP candidates to renounce their NOM pledges,” said Evan Wolfson, founder and president of Freedom to Marry, the campaign to win marriage nationwide.

“A president’s job is to lead and unite the nation, not take part in a politics of division and cruelty. Anyone seeking the nation’s highest office should not be affiliated with a group seeking to discredit the strong and clear voice of those African-American civil rights champions, such as John Lewis, Julian Bond, and Coretta Scott King, who have stood up for the freedom to marry and the equal civil rights of all people, including gay people of color.”

Full Story from Freedom to Marry

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USA: Released Documents Shed More Light on NOM Campaign Finance Disclosure Avoidance

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012

NOM LogoDespite all the disturbing race-wedging, parent-scaring, and dummy celebrity-co-opting found in the National Organization for Marriage’s confidential memos, it’s important to remember one other aspect of the anti-gay group’s sneaky tactics — the very tactic that failed and allowed these documents to see the light of day. In every one of its efforts, NOM intentionally avoids any action that would require it to disclose the identities of its donors. Consider this passage from one of the memos:

A victory in 2009 in Maine is critical to stopping the momentum of the same-sex marriage movement in the Northeast. The total budget for Maine is $3.5 million. We cannot designate any money given to NOM to the Maine effort because of disclosure requirements. But we do plan to contribute a total of $1 million to the campaign.

In a later memo, NOM admitted to funding $1.8 million of the approximately $3 million raised in Maine. Regardless of whether the intention was to circumvent or outright violate Maine’s laws, the goal was the same: avoid falling under the purview of finance disclosure while still playing a significant role. Of course, it was thanks to NOM’s failed challenge to Maine’s laws that these documents have been released.

Full Story from Think Progress

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USA: “Local” Anti Marriage Equality Websites Suspiciously Similar

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012

NOM LogoEver notice how uniform the websites of “local” anti-marriage equality organizations are? Below are screen shots from currently-active anti-marriage equality organizations from the far-flung states of North Carolina, Minnesota and Washington.

Here are just a few of the elements that these websites have in common:

  • A stock photo depicting a white heterosexual couple with a boy and a girl.
  • A silhouette of a heterosexual couple holding hands with a boy and a girl.
  • The slogan “One Man. One Woman”
  • Menu bar with the first three options “Home”, “Why Marriage Matters” and “The Threat to Marriage”, in that order.

The “Why Marriage Matters” pages are identical on the three websites (NC, MN & WA). With the exception of some added state-specific verbiage, each website contains the same 1,300-word essay including the same reference to discredited “scholar” David Blankenhorn.

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