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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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NY, USA: State Senator Happily Joins NOM Efforts to Drive Wedge Between Black, Gay Communities

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

NOM LogoIt seems the National Organization for Marriage believes that if it simply redoubles its race-baiting tactics as if they are not problematic and offensive, then the controversy over its now-known intention to do so will somehow be overlooked. New York state Senator Rev. Ruben Diaz (D) has unsurprisingly volunteered to be the anti-equality group’s latest token to help “drive a wedge between gays and blacks” and “make opposition to gay marriage an identity marker” for young Latinos:

DIAZ: Brian Brown and NOM have done something, that no one has been able to do before: they have helped Black and Hispanic people throughout the nation to find our voice when everyone else rejected us and excluded us from the debate.

You should know that NOM has not divided us, it has brought us unity; NOM has given a voice to the voiceless on the marriage issue, and shown us respect for our core, and sacred values on marriage–a respect the mainstream media has consistently denied us.

Full Story from Think Progress

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USA: 25K Sign Starbucks Boycott vs. 460K in Support of Company

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

Starbucks BoycottI guess this is what is meant by “the jokes just write themselves”. Check out the “victory” diary that Maggie Gallagher just posted on the NOM (National Organization for Marriage) blog.

NOM and allies have been thrashing the weeds for almost two weeks now trying to get people to pledge to “Dump Starbucks” because Starbucks has joined the ever-lengthening list of businesses that support Washington’s marriage equality law. And 25,000 signatures is all they have to show for it.

In the mean time, over 460,000 people have signed the Thank Your Starbucks note over at SumOfUs.

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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.

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USA: Boehner Appoints NOM Co-Founder to Commission on Religious Freedom

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday appointed Robert George, co-founder and chairman emeritus of the National Organization for Marriage, to the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom, which, according to the Commission’s chairman, addresses “the challenges of religious extremism, intolerance, and repression throughout the world.”

The appointment was announced on the same day the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) released previously sealed documents detailing how NOM has pursued “a divisive, intolerant, and racially-charged strategy to stop marriage equality in the United States.”

“For the Speaker to appoint someone who embodies NOM’s deep seated anti-gay animus is the wrong thing to do,” said HRC President Joe Solmonese.

Full Story from LGBTQ Nation

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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.”

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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: NAACP Responds to NOM Politics of Racial Division

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012

Via HRC, NAACP chair Julian Bond weighs in on NOM’s secret plans to create a race war in America:

“NOM’s underhanded attempts to divide will not succeed if Black Americans remember their own history of discrimination. Pitting bigotry’s victims against other victims is reprehensible; the defenders of justice must stand together.”

Full Story from AmericaBlog

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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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USA: NOM Was Looking for Beautiful, Stupid People Against Marriage Equality

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012

NOM LogoWe wrote late Monday night about the National Organization for Marriage’s (NOM) secret plan to incite a race war in order to stop gays from getting their civil rights.

Well GLAAD noticed another part of the document that’s almost laughable. In an effort to counter Hollywood’s pro-gay influence on the culture, NOM wants to create a group of artists, athletes, writers and beauty queens who are anti-gay and – get this – stupid. Or as NOM calls them in the secret memo, “non-cognitive.” That means stupid.

Full Story from AmericaBlog

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