NYT: Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich 'Should Be Racing' to Condemn NOM

The NYT highlights NOM’s campaign to divide Blacks and gays in an editorial today, noting the GOP candidates’ huggy relationship with the group:

NOM-logoThese are not the musings of a marginalized group. The day after the memos became public, National Organization for Marriage’s co-founder and chairman emeritus, Robert George, was appointed by John Boehner, the Republican House speaker, to a United States commission focused on addressing religious intolerance and extremism around the globe.

Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have publicly aligned themselves with the group and signed its pledge to work aggressively from the White House against same-sex marriage.

Now that the group’s poisonous political approach is out in the open, Mr. Romney and the others should be racing to make clear their disapproval.

We detect no stampede.

Divide and Discriminate [nyt]

Why Anti-LGBT Tactics to Divide Latinos and the LGBT Community Won't Work

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Even by Washington standards, the National Organization for Marriage’s (NOM) unmasked strategy to drive a wedge between blacks and Latinos on one side and the LGBT community on the other is stunningly cynical. In a series of documents obtained last week by the Human Rights Campaign in a court proceeding, NOM outlined a bewildering campaign to make opposition to gay marriage “cool” and “hip” among young Latinos and convince other Latinos that supporting gay marriage was tantamount to “forced assimilation.”

The cravenness on display from NOM is reminiscent of another bastion of intolerance, the anti-immigrant movement. They, too, have enough political savvy to realize that, first, Latinos are an important demographic and voting block, and that, second, movements built on bigotry and intolerance are most successful when their shameful agenda stays hidden from the public.

That’s why the granddaddy of the anti-immigrant movement, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), has created front organizations purporting to represent both anti-immigrant Latinos and blacks. In classic “pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain” fashion, they somehow believed that no one would notice the deception — as if everyone is too dumb to notice the man who chooses to hide by standing still in room with a lampshade over his head.

If NOM had stopped its indefatigable scheming for just a moment to learn something about our community, this diabolical plan would never have been hatched. First, not all Latinos are immigrants. Second, Latino immigrants welcome integration into American society. Third, Latinos are not foolish enough to believe that NOM has our best interests at heart. And, fourth, despite what NOM may think, the Latino community overwhelmingly supports LGBT equality. The Movement Advancement Project released research recently that showed that 74 percent of Latinos “support marriage or marriage-like legal recognition for gay and lesbian couples.”

Fortunately, this truly offensive idea has completely backfired. The documents reveal an organization rife with bigotry, willing to do anything to advance intolerance in our society. If anyone wondered whether black, LGBT, and Latino leaders have awakened to realize that we have common enemies that seek to divide us, these revelations and reactions from civil rights leaders last week show that we have and are ready to work together to defeat those enemies.

This piece was first posted to the NCLR Blog.

Judge Requires NOM To Disclose Prop 8 Donors Because NOM Is Not The NAACP

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Last Friday U.S. District Judge Morrison England told ProtectMarriage.com and the National Organization for Marriage that they can’t skirt California campaign-finance law by keeping the names of their Prop 8 donors secret. 

The two anti-gay groups argued that their donors would face threats and harassment if their names were made public. It was an argument made by the NAACP in the 1950s—one which allowed the civil-rights group to keep its membership rolls sealed.

Well, if they stop hating gay people they won’t have to worry about being harassed! If you hate something so much you shouldn’t be ashamed to show your face and give your name. Be proud of you hate!

Anti-Gay NOM's New Radio Ad Admits They Were Top Prop 8 Funder (Audio)

by David Badash

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NOM, the National Organization For Marriage, released a new ad touting their accomplishments, including the statement that NOM, the National Organization For Marriage, “was the largest contributor to get Proposition 8 on the ballot.”

NOM, which was founded in 2007, had to work pretty hard to get that much cash together in 2007 to fund a 2008 California ballot initiative, wouldn’t you think? Where did all that cash come from?

NOM reportedly contributed $1.8 million to get the anti-​gay, Proposition 8 on the ballot. How?

Via Wikipedia:

“Fred Karger of Californians Against Hate filed a complaint with the California Fair Political Practices Commission alleging that the National Organization for Marriage was established by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-​day Saints in order to direct church funds toward the passage of Proposition 8. A church spokesman and NOM’s then-​president Maggie Gallagher both denied the allegations.”

Karger is now a Republican presidential candidate.

Back to the radio ad, which is only being played on Christian radio stations. (And thanks to Jeremy Hooper of Good As You for finding it!)

NOM President Brian Brown says in the ad, “preserving marriage is the moral battle of our generation.”

OK, Brian, preserve it. Help all couples to make it through these tough times.

Click the link above to listen to the audio.

Ten Mailers New York Should Use To Fight NOM And Win Marriage Equality

NOM and other anti-gay groups want people to equate marriage equality with an attack on religion, community values, and predation on children—but they certainly don’t have the market cornered on any of those, especially as society gets exposed to more calm, rational, and openly-gay TV characters and professional athletes.

We criticized the NYC pro-equality ads featuring two milquetoast lesbians as failing to meet the emotional pitch and engagement of their “queers will turn all kids and churches gay” ad.

Well, this week NOM delivered totally predictable mailers with more of the same blather, but we thought, “Why not take off the kid gloves and aggressively respond with some of our own anti-NOM postcards turning their own words back on them?”

Here they are:

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ACTION ALERT!! Gays "Worthy Of Death?" Demand Maggie Gallagher Denounce This Statement From NOM's Marriage Rally.

On Sunday, May 15, at an anti-marriage equality rally sponsored and promoted by Maggie Gallagher’s National Organization for Marriage, Rev. Ariel Torres Ortega spoke before the audience, microphone in hand, and said, 

“Committing sexual acts between man and man. And receiving the retribution of the things that they have done from straying away. And because they did not take God in count. God gave them over to reprimand their mind to do things that are not right, being against all justice, fornication, perversity, aberrations, malignity…those who practice such things are worthy to death, not only do they do it, but those who also practice it. God bless this earth. That is the word of God.”

Advocating death, especially death of a particular group, is unacceptable, and certainly hate speech.

Maggie Gallagher, Chairman of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) must immediately denounce this hate-filled statement that occurred at her event, and agree that no one should advocate or support the killing of LGBT people.

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NOM And Queers Agree: We Want More Brown People In Our Photos!

Now that National Organization for Marriage defector Louis Marinelli has left NOM’s bigotry bus, he’s revealing their tricks of the trade; namely, the anti-gay org likes getting as many brown people into rally photographs as possible so they can show how people of every color hate same-sex marriage!

But is this racial manipulation or just good marketing?

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National Organization for Marriage refers to birther site in attack on lgbt education

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The National Organization for Marriage is in a good mood because as the organization tells it, a new poll says that a majority of Americans reject “teaching gay subjects in elementary schools:”

Bob Unruh reports:

An overwhelming majority of Americans say elementary school is no place to promote the homosexual lifestyle, and even among liberals there is the strong belief that such lessons should be left outside the door of the classroom, according to a new poll.

The results are from a WND/WENZEL Poll conducted for WND by the public-opinion research and media consulting company Wenzel Strategies.

“Whether they object on moral grounds or simply out of concern that many U.S. schools are failing in their core missions of teaching basics doesn’t really matter – the vast majority of American adults want this type of curriculum kept out of the classroom,” Wenzel chief Fritz Wenzel said.

There is just one BIG problem with that poll. It comes from the site World Net Daily, or more commonly known by some as WingNut Daily.

It is an extremely homophobic site. Among other things:

  • A writer on the site, Les Kinsolving, has in the past referred to the lgbt community as the “sodomy lobby.” In October of  last year, he called a judge’s order to stop enforcement of the military’s ban on gay and lesbian troops in the military as a “disease ridden judicial decision.”
  • At its online superstore (yes World Net Daily has a “superstore”), interested individuals can buy a discounted copy of The Pink Swastika, a discredited book which claims that gay men started the Nazi Party.

Even the World Net Daily article, which NOM refers, to repeats lies about Obama appointee Kevin Jennings, such as he supports “teaching children about fisting.”

So I think its safe to doubt the credibility of this site’s poll.

But vicious homophobia doesn’t even scratch the surface in regards to World Net Daily’s madness.

World Net Daily has also been the leader of birther nonsense, shamelessly implying that President Obama is ineligible to be president. The site has ran over 100 articles regarding this issue, including the following:

Kagan, Sotomayor blew chance to stop eligibility challenge?
Lawyers say Supremes broke rule, failed to respond to recusal motion

Hawaii official now swears: No Obama birth certificate
Signs affidavit declaring long-form, hospital-generated document absent

Questions raised over Obama birth date
Was claim he was 3 months old during ‘Bay of Pigs’ a slip?

Promises of Obama birth hospital trip vanish
Authors admit no one given tour of president’s ‘birthplace’ in Hawaii

Oprah’s half-sister ‘has Obama’s birth certificate’
Rush Limbaugh clowns about Winfrey’s family secret

The site sells birther bumper stickers, postcards, and videos. World Net Daily also created a national billboard campaign asking “Where is the birth certificate.”

Ironically, even now when Obama has made his long-form birth certificate public, World Net Daily is still spinning conspiracy theories. On Sunday, the site ran the following:

Online ‘birth certificate’ document ‘was changed’
Analysis raises possibility content of text was altered

Way to go, NOM. I wonder how the African-Americans allies you made in Maryland and you are now making in New York would feel about your citing World Net Daily, a site working actively to delegitimize Obama’s presidency.

Perhaps Brian Brown and Maggie Gallagher, NOM’s leaders, should remember before they spout off yet again about “unfairly being labeled as bigots” that you are always known by the company that you keep.

Or in this case, the sources you cite.

NOM supporting anti-marriage NYC rally

Joe.My.God. has an important post on his blog for New Yorkers:

NOM has officially aligned themselves with NY Sen. Ruben Diaz’ massive anti-gay hate rally, which takes place in the Bronx on Sunday, May 15th, the day of the AIDS Walk in Central Park.

Brian Brown said: On May 15, Rev Díaz called for a rally in the Bronx and I will be there! Talk about fighting for marriage in the deep blue country!

The whole post is here.

Joe notes:

As in 2009, I will among the likely few counter-protesters at the Diaz rally. If you plan on attending, you might consider including respectful messages in Spanish on your signage. The odds are high that your image will end up in the other side’s materials.