Good As You: National Organization For Marriage Roundup
11/20/2009
What the hell is Brian Brown smoking?!
The National Organization For Marriage's Brian Brown begins this week's email missive with the line: "The great victories in Maine and New York-23 for pro-marriage forces continue to reverberate up and down the Eastern Seaboard." Only problem: Brian's side won...
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11/18/2009
Video: We see your Brown, NOM, and we raise you a Catania
Apparently seeing more benefits in rambling than we do, the National Organization for Marriage is now proudly highlighting this video from the Brian Brown's recent D.C. Council testimony: So that being the case, we thought it would be in everyone's...
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11/16/2009
Carrie is 'Still Standing; NOM seems ready to sit
When one visited the National Organization For Marriage's website on Friday, they were greeted with this pop-up ad: And on the main site, in the rotating set of flash images, readers saw this in tab number four: But now? No...
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11/10/2009
Video: Evan vs. anything but even
- She uses the "this gay marriage thing" line yet again. TWICE! - She uses her other overplayed talking points, like "the two great halves of humanity" - She dances around the issue of civil unions and domestic partnerships, even...
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11/06/2009
NOM-ma needs a new pair of 'shoo, get away gays!'
NOM blew its wad in Maine. So Brian Brown's breaking out the theatrical money pleas, turning to self-aggrandization and attacks on the "bloated bureuacracy" of HRC to help fill their costly coffers: Yea, you wanna play the "bloated bureaucracy" game?...
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11/04/2009
Remember when Bishops found 'good sermon' to be enough of a thank you?
There is something wrong with America when a faith-based organization who bankrolled a campaign to rollback legislatively enacted CIVIL rights includes a line like this in their post-election political press release: Bishop Richard Malone of the Diocese of Portland provided...
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10/25/2009
Yes on 1's largest donor: An examination (Complete Set)
Volume 1: Unhinged billboard campaign Volume 2: Oversimplified reduction of pro-gay comments Volume 3: Ridiculous Vaclav Havel/Soviet empire comparisons Volume 4: NOM board member wants to overthrow pro-gay governments Volume 5: NOM's general counsel = quite extremist Volume 6: Heated...
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10/24/2009
Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 13)
A "grassfire [that] would spread across America!" That is the way that former U.S. Senator Rick "man on dog sex" Santorum reduced and condemned same-sex unions in a recent pitch letter that he penned for the National Organization For Marriage:...
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Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 12)
On 9/4/09, the National Organization For Marriage's Maggie Gallagher appeared on "The Ken and Mike Morning News Show." Things to listen listen up for: Maggie once again using the Ocean Grove, NJ, thing, neglecting to mention the actual facts at...
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Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 10)
On 9/11/09 (of all days), the National Organization For Marriage's Brian Brown began his weekly email like so: So we just need to ask Mainers: Do you honestly feel like you are fighting a cultural Vietnam right now? Because NOM,...
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Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 9)
National Organization For Marriage's Maggie Gallagher, from a Catholic radio program: *Source: Catholic Answers Live -- 6/30/08 Are you going to let canon law put a cannon to Maine's civil law? $1.1 million of the $1.4 million raised by Stand...
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Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 8)
All of these quotes come from the National Organization For Marriage's Brian Brown. Personally number five is our "favorite": "Same-sex unions are not marriages and Iowans should not be forced by law to treat them as such.” ... "This madness...
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Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 7)
How extreme is the National Organization For Marriage? Well get this. Back in 1996, when that awful Defense of Marriage Act was passed, NOM's Maggie Gallagher actually spoke out against it. Because she found it to be -- get this...
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Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 6)
This comes from The National Organization For Marriage's founder, Robert George: "...it is not really about benefits. It is about sex. The idea that is antithetical to those who are seeking to redefine marriage is that there is something uniquely...
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Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 5)
Below you will find eight video clips that feature one Charles LiMandri Esq. Mr. LiMandri serves as the general counsel for the National Organization For Marriage (and is Carrie Prejean's attorney). So in light of this major Maine development... $1.1...
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Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 4)
This from Mormon Times, 7/24/08 If America becomes a place where our children are taken from us by law and forced to attend schools where they are taught that cohabitation is as good as marriage, that motherhood doesn't require a...
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Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 3)
In April of this year, the National Organization For Marriage's Maggie Gallagher shared this little nugget with the Dallas Morning News' Rod Dreher: Rod Dreher: Maggie, you and I are on the same side of the gay marriage issue, but...
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Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 2)
Back in October of 2008, the National Organization For Marriage's Maggie Gallagher said the following in order to scare California voters into supporting that divisive misstep known as Prop 8: (If embedded audio doesn't load for you, you can listen...
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Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 1)
Back in October of 2007, when the average person still thought NOM was nothing more than an onomatopoeic way to express the sound of eating, the group that commonly operates under that very acronym, the National Organization For Marriage, installed...
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10/22/2009
Hey Brian Brown: Dede's not the political dodo -- hurting gay people is!
In New York's 23rd district, Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman is hellbent on attacking his Republican rival for U.S. Congress, NY Assembly member Dede Scozzafava, for nothing more than being too moderate (read: pro-gay) for his liking. In fact, in one...
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10/16/2009
Wait, Brian Brown: When did 'crucial roadblock' come to mean 'strong, supportive body of allies'?
In a new e-blast, the National Organization For Marriage's Brian Brown says: In New York state, African-American state senators like State Sen. Ruben Diaz (like Ratliff, an ordained minister) have emerged as crucial roadblocks on the path to imposing same-sex...
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10/13/2009
Audio: 'Jayla'
The National Organization For Marriage is on the radio in New Jersey, using the same script that we've heard a million different times. Although this time, they made the odd choice of changing the name of the daughter, who had...
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10/08/2009
Video: Brian and his 'consequences': looking more inconsequential every single day
Ya know, it's interesting to us that the National Organization for Marriage links to the following video clip on its website: Because the way we see it, interviewer Bruce DePuyt, backed by facts and support from scores and scores of...
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10/01/2009
Major Maine development!
WOW! By a 3-2 vote, the Maine Governmental Ethics & Election Practices has just voted to conduct an investigation into the Stand for Marriage Maine political action committee (PAC) and some of its contributors (namely the National Organization For Marriage)!...
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09/24/2009
The Vatican and your 'I dos': How Canon Law is putting a cannon to your equality
In Maine, the Catholics are coming out in a major way against marriage equality. In New York, Archbishop Timothy Dolan is telling the press all about the "character flaw" that is homosexuality. And we've recently learned that the church's influence...
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09/11/2009
The cruelty of war (comparisons)
You know that whole Vietnam war thing that was responsible for several million deaths? Yea, well, if you are currently or have the prospect of ever being in a same-sex marriage, than the National Organization For Marriage's resident "nice guy"...
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09/08/2009
'Post' haste: WaPo self-questions past puff piece
Gay rights advocates got a little slice of vindication over the weekend, when the Washington Post's ombudsman, Andrew Alexander, ran a column responding to the paper's recent piece on "nice guy" Brian Brown. Overall, Alexander seems to agree with the...
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09/04/2009
Audio: Maggie & ME
This morning while visiting Maine, Maggie Gallagher (or Srivastav) appeared on a local show called "The Ken and Mike Morning News Show." Things to listen listen up for: Maggie once again using the Ocean Grove, NJ, thing, neglecting to mention...
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Nun your business: What's really behind NOM's anti-civil habit
The National Organization For Marriage is all about their supposed "broad-based coalition." But when you listen to its Catholic leaders Maggie Gallagher and Brian Brown speak within their own Holy See-focused forums, you really start to hear what is truly...
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09/03/2009
Video: Charles in Charge (of turning Carrie into the new Anita Bryant)
Want to learn more about Carrie Prejean's lawyer, the NOM-affiliated attorney who is on record labeling same-sex unions as "societal suicide," who once said that the "destruction of the concept of gender is perhaps Satan's greatest accomplishment," and who cites...
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09/02/2009
Sign-on-2-rile: Mike and Brian to have a lil' chat
Just a quick programming note: This will happen today on Michelangelo Signorile's Sirius/XM show: 4:30ET: Brian Brown, the Executive Director of the National Organization for Marriage, will join me to discuss what the group is up to now. Listen to...
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Iowa voters reject NOMinee
Another testament to the National Organization for Marriage's efficacy not matching their visibility: Stephen Burgmeier, the Iowa state house candidate that they spent almost 90,000 backing, lost his bid in last night's special election: Hanson bests Burgmeier in HD90 [Iowa...
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09/01/2009
In this game of Life, we'll gladly play the Scott Card
One of the most frustrating things about doing what we do is that we who fight for equality in this so-called "culture war" often know far more about our organized opposition than even some of their own followers. For instance,...
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08/31/2009
Maggie to Iowa: Don't pay attention to the carefully formed thoughts behind the curtain
Speaking yet again about Iowa's marriage equality, this time to the AFA's One News Now site, professional anti-gay activist Maggie Gallagher says the following about Gov. Chet Culver and his failure to come out against his state Supreme Court's favorable...
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Fine-toothed combs scour NOM's unfair hair
There's lots of talking going on about the National Organization For Marriage, its organized existence, and the way it distributes the considerable amount of cash that it pushes around in the name of discrimination. Here are some the latest developments:...
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08/30/2009
Video: It's bad when Penn & Teller use less smoke & mirrors than WaPo
Since Monica Hesse's complete and utter puff piece has put a heightened spotlight onto the National Organization For Marriage's Brian Brown, we thought we'd now take a look back at one of B.B's first forays onto the national media stage....
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08/28/2009
Brian, Maggie (and who knows how many others) believe their own press
Still not convinced that Monica Hesse's new article on NOM's Brian Brown is more of a love letter than an objective assessment? Well here, look at what the NOMmers themselves have to say about it. We didn't think anything short...
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Insulting: Both Brian Brown's work and WaPo's assessment thereof!
"Same-sex unions are not marriages and Iowans should not be forced by law to treat them as such.” ... "This madness has to end. No good can come of a law based on a lie, and same-sex unions are not...
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08/26/2009
Dear Brian Brown:
When you attempt to make an example of someone in an email blast, you should at least do a simple Google search to ensure that you have that adversary's name right. Because her name is Monique, not Monica: **Note: Here's...
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Maggie Gallagher: What's in a name?
Those who oppose marriage equality for gay couples love to cite majority opinion to justify their resistance. In most every one of their public appearances, you'll find these "marriage protectors" quoting whatever polling data they can to supposedly "prove" that...
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08/24/2009
Filling in NOM's conveniently excised words
Since fully fleshed out thoughts are the enemy of their cause, the National Organization For Marriage doesn't want you reading Iowa Governor Chet Culver's full comments on his state's fair-minded marriage ruling. This is why in their latest anti-equality video,...
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Video: It's NOM's America, we just seek peace within it
The National Organization for Marriage's Iowa strategy: To elect as many like-minded lawmakers as they possibly can, in hopes that a homo-hostile legislature will push for a state where majority tyranny is as valued as the corn. Their first recruit...
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08/21/2009
And by 'the fight' he means his side's decision to punch without being attacked
He says: “The fight over Proposition 8, as far as the ballot initiative, is over. We won” -The National Organization For Marriage's Brian Brown, speaking to the Washington Blade We say: Oh, Brian, Brian, Brian -- so naive. You may...
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08/17/2009
Video: Hurting gays, lacking the fortitude to admit it
Maggie Gallagher, from yesterday's supposedly "non-political" NOM Rhode Island event: It's also "not an accident" that some people are born gay, Maggie! And there is also "something special" about same-sex love! Stop overlooking the key issue here (i.e. your militant...
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08/14/2009
The truly 'silly' thing, NOM, is your professionally hurtful existence
When fairness advocates found out that the Tim Hortons coffee chain was lending its name to an anti-gay National Organization For Marriage event, we were understandably concerned/annoyed/perturbed. Because while we understand that anti-equality forces have the right to stand against...
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08/13/2009
Hey NOM: When vendors back out, you should back off
Both Tim Hortons coffee chain and Blount Fine Foods may have pulled out of this weekend's deceptively named “Celebrate Marriage and Family Day" (i.e. A Day To Drum Up Anti-Equality Hostility under the Guise of 'Family Protection'), but the event...
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08/11/2009
NOM on Hortons: 'But, but, but -- we're only stripping gays of liberty. What's the big whoop?'
The Advocate managed to snag a quote from the National Organization For Marriage's Christopher Plante, the first official reaction we've heard from the anti-equality side in regards to the Tim Hortons pullout: "It's stressful, it's sorrowful, it's saddening," Plante said....
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08/10/2009
Latte outrage: Hot beans purveyor hops in bed with bias
Like coffee? A fan of da gays? Enjoy Canadians? Well then, you might want to know about this: Canadian coffee and doughnut chain Tim Hortons is sponsoring the National Organization for Marriage’s antigay cookout and worship service on behalf of...
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07/28/2009
'Dr. Making Gay Love seem like Strangelove' or: How Maggie Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the DOMA
Maggie Gallagher and her National Organization For Marriage love, love, love, love, LOVE the Defense Of Marriage Act. NOM has set up shop in the nation's capital for the sole purpose of defending DOMA, and they are fundraising on the...
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07/22/2009
The shutout was funny. The 3 attendees might be more telling
So you know that NOM Facebook Fail that we've been telling you about? The one where hundreds of non-attendees (currently at 476) have registered their non-attendance and pro-equality thoughts? Yea, well we were a little annoyed today to see that...
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