Good As You: National Organization For Marriage Roundup
02/29/2012
NOM writes 'CENSORED' on a priest's face; looks unhinged
Brian Brown's new National Organization For Marriage email blast is one of the most histrionic in recent memory, complete with a graphic implication that "brutal" advocates for CIVIL marriage equality are somehow trying to censor priests so that they can't...
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02/27/2012
NOM to NY: 'We don't care' if we help pro-marriage-equality party earn Senate majority
The Jewish alliance against state Senate candidate Lew Fidler/for David Storobin isn't the only NOM NY news of the day. The anti-gay organization is continuing its quest to oust those Republicans who voted for marriage equality last summer, even if...
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02/24/2012
Obama, Santorum same on marriage, say people who've been living in caves. Oh, and NOM
I've certainly seen the National Organization For Marriage push some clumsy lines in the past. But this obtuse attempt to mine hypocrisy out of obviousness is certainly one of the clumsiest in recent memory: I'm not even going to dignify...
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02/16/2012
NOM prez in '05: Gay 'change' can 'prevent your child from embracing this destructive way of life'
Since Maggie Gallagher's MSNBC denials have brought her and the National Organization for Marriage's not infrequent pushes for "ex-gayness" into a new light, I thought I should remind folks of one more. This one comes from 2005 and finds NOM...
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02/03/2012
NOM's clumsy heavy hand finds its next 'they'
This is the graphic NOM is pushing in the organization's latest e-blast: [SOURCE] The subject is Maryland First Lady Katie O'Malley, who used the word "coward" in reference to those who put politics before principle in last year's state marriage...
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02/01/2012
Maine: The most suspect of NOM's pro-smokescreen pushes
The Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices will have to take additional steps before disclosure becomes mandatory. Plus NOM has vowed to continue to appeal this thing all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. But still, it's...
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01/30/2012
NOM threatens Starbucks; my afternoon pick-me-up suddenly upgraded to Venti
On April 27th, 2011, the National Organization For Marriage told supporters to "Buy a chicken sandwich, and thank the manager for the company's support of traditional family values." This, along with several other posts on the subject, came after this...
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01/28/2012
Audio: NOM pretends to want, be fine with 'Compromise'; is fibbing
Currently running in New Hampshire: *REMINDER (because it can't be brought up enough): NOM *never* supports civil unions. NOM and all of its key players have a long history of standing against marriage equality in every state where it's come...
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Brian Brown's itching to mock NH's 'Live Free or Die' reputation
I got a promotion. We're having a baby. Ben & Jerry's found a way to strip away all fat yet maintain full flavor. We're getting married. Any of the above could fall in the "exciting news" category. But what excites...
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01/26/2012
NOM will take away NY marriage licenses; driver and voter registrations apparently in clear (for now)
NOM will flip the legislator in a way that has never, ever happened in New York state. Then they will convince the flipped legislature and new, NOM-approved governor that they should bring up, advance, pass, and sign a bill that...
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01/20/2012
NOM pledges _____ to do ______
It's seriously like Mad Libs at this point: Here's the New Hampshire edition, fresh from the Xerox: NOM Pledges $250K to Support New Hampshire Legislators Who Stand Up For Restoring Traditional Marriage; Will Challenge Those Who Vote Against the Same-Sex...
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Brian Brown's outraged at legislative drive (*unless it's in reverse)
NOM President Brian Brown manages to display astounding hypocrisy in just two sentences: In both Washington and New Jersey the Democrats have decided, in the middle of an economic collapse causing budget crises, to make pushing a gay marriage bill...
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01/19/2012
NOM's Peters shocked to hear what his own org. routinely dishes
In a post wherein he declares openly gay Washington state Rep. Jamie Pedersen the "jerk of the week" for pointing out the harms of civil discrimination that people like me, you, and Jamie know all-too-well, the National Organization For Marriage's...
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01/18/2012
NOM, constant critic of 'out of state cash', ponies up a little more
It's always interesting to see how much money NOM will promise to any given state. New York got a two million dollar vow, while Jersey is again standing in NY's shadow with only a $500k offer. Other states like Maryland...
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01/17/2012
Partisan group NOM to sponsor annual Republican conference
From time to time, when it befits their need to seem middle-of-the-road, the National Organization For Marriage will try to make itself seem anything other than Republican. But this week, NOM will continue to chip away at that game when...
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01/12/2012
READ: NOM 'Marriage Anti-Defamation' project served with removal demand
A tipster sent me this correspondence, which was sent from a lawyer to NOM president Brian Brown. Gives us more insight into NOM's ever-deceptive game: 20120110 LTR JDT *ALSO: This confirms that Demographic Winter documentarian Rick Stout is the one...
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Noun-as-adjective; NOM-as-partisan
Q. What does a Democratic state lawmaker get for standing with the "traditional marriage" conservatives? A. He gets Republican groups like NOM doing that truly silly conservative game where they refuse to use the proper adjective form (Democratic), instead resorting...
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01/10/2012
NOM EXPOSED: Earmarks for historical pockmarks: Brown commits $500k to NJ
Brian Brown now promising to direct at least half a million dollars of NOM's seemingly limitless, undoubtedly secretive cash towards the Garden State. This from The Washington Times: KEEP READING: Earmarks for historical pockmarks: Brown commits $500k to NJ [NOM...
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01/09/2012
NOM to keep wasting money on Ron Paul in NH; Paul still leading their beloved Santorum
Manchester, NH – The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) today announced that it is mounting a $50,000 independent expenditure effort in New Hampshire to educate state voters about Ron Paul's "unacceptable" position on marriage. The National Organization for Marriage Continues...
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01/05/2012
Video: NOM reruns two-year-old clip; didn't get more cogent with age
I'm not sure why NOM just snatched, isolated, and reposted the following Fora.tv clip from 2009, since I've always considered it once of the more callous (e.g. listen to how condescending Maggie is to Keith Boykin) and obtuse (e.g. "if...
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01/04/2012
A 'big loss' and 'poor showing' for Paul? Yeah, NOM?
One can call Ron Paul a number of things. Doctor. Congressman. unfortunate newspaper articles. Septuagenarian. One thing you cannot rightly say about Ron Paul, a onetime long shot candidate who took a close third place (behind Santorum and Romney's virtual...
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01/03/2012
NOM, while calling us Soros-funded elites, continues to spend money like its water
$7883 to Schubert Flint Public Affairs (the Prop 8 firm) to produce the ad $8,000 to their Catholic social outreach team, OPUSFidelis, to create an affiliated website Over $27,000 to local stations to air the spot An additional $15,000 for...
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01/02/2012
NOM calls us the marriage debate's 'bullies'; either delusional, willfully deceptive, or both
In a desperate year-end fundraising pitch letter to supporters, NOM president Brian Brown -- president of an organization that has no purpose other than to stop or take marriage rights away from loving, tax-paying, same-sex couples -- positioned pro-equality activists...
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12/27/2011
NOM vs. every marriage & C.U state (*with assist from 'homosexuality is punishable by death' site)
The ever-nuanced, ever-measured National Organization For Marriage has posted this indictment of ever state that has either full marriage equality or affords civil unions to same-sex couples: [SOURCE: NOM Blog] The subject of the subsequent post is Illinois, a state...
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12/19/2011
Gay-inclusive 'Glee' advertises 'sin and destruction,' says NOM's 'civil' marriage voice
NOM keeps trying to work the idea that the organization's first "Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance" poster boy, Frank Turek, is nothing more than a "civil" opponent of gay marriage: I've already shown you several examples of why this idea is so...
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12/16/2011
What matters more to NOM: 'Protect marriage' rhetoric or 54 years of actuality?
Like many social conservatives, the National Organization For Marriage has begun a campaign to undermine any and everything about Ron Paul, now that the Congressman actually looks viable in Iowa. Brian Brown even wrote a lengthy letter about it, which...
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12/13/2011
NOM EXPOSED: I am not a poker chip
As part of its ongoing efforts to turn Empire State hearts into craps, NOM is now seizing on New York state’s possible expansion of its gaming industry. The suggestion: That if New Yorkers get the opportunity to vote on gambling,...
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NOM EXPOSED: Why is NOM’s NH effort so local-averse?
We all had a lot of fun with NOM’s completely unethical attempt to pass off a pair of Obama ’08 campaign photos as representative of their own ability to draw anti-equality crowds in New Hampshire. But would you believe that...
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12/07/2011
Even more 'ex-gay' advocacy from NOM
A National Organization for Marriage supporter wrote this on the organization's official Facebook wall: [SOURCE] Homosexuality is "wrong"? "Empty"? Fit to be "changed"? Clearly those views go well beyond America's conversation regarding civil marriage, NOM's stated focus, and instead delve...
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12/05/2011
NOM off the rails: Supposedly marriage-focused group now pushing 'gays can change' video
The National Organization For Marriage, the group that will soon lead the fights in every state where marriage is going to the polls, is now pushing an incredibly incendiary (and fallacious) video from the Family Research Council, which, among other...
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12/02/2011
Kevin "my group pushes 'ex-gay' therapy" Smith joins NOM
Kevin Smith, former head of New Hampshire's Cornerstone Policy Research is seeking the GOP nomination for Governor. But in the meantime? He has become an official National Organization For Marriage lobbyist: BREAKING: New Hampshire GOP Candidate Registers as Lobbyist for...
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12/01/2011
NOM Exposed: 'Victory' at any cost
As you might have noticed by the Thanksgiving video I first teased and then exposed right here on N-E, Maggie Gallagher has launched yet another side project. Joining her silly, misguided, offensive, and going-nowhere "Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance," the NOM co-founder...
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11/22/2011
Audio: If you show up with your same-sex spouse, you're victimizing Maggie Gallagher and Jen Roback Morse
Last night, I told you about NOM's plans to launch a video instructing same-sex marriage opponents on how to handle their equality-supportive families around the Tofurky Day table. Now comes more background, courtesy of a radio chat between NOM's Maggie...
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11/21/2011
Audio: NOM's 'marriage defamation' star spent weekend conflating homosexuality and pedophilia
Frank Turek was the National Organization For Marriage's inaugural "Marriage Anti-Defamation" star. Now listen as Turek carries out his reign by spending over half an hour with Michael Brown -- a man who recently said murdered gay teen Larry King...
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11/17/2011
Shouldn't NOM's own Chair know NOM donations aren't tax deductible?
NOM is a 501(c )(4). Donations to NOM are not tax deductible. To know that, all one has to do is look a the footer of any NOM e-blast: Apparently incoming NOM chair John Eastman has yet to look: SOURCE:...
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11/15/2011
Video: NOM turns to Canadian sports world; result more hokey, less hockey
Damian Goddard is the Canadian sportscaster who was released from his role as a freelance contractor with Rogers Sportsnet earlier this year. Goddard and his willing allies on the conservative side of the fence have claimed the release was exclusively...
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NOM Exposed: 'Gays as Bullies' Exposed as False
NOM Exposed Document
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11/12/2011
Days and Slights: This Week in NOM (Nov. 6 - Nov. 12)
Dear NOM Watcher, My husband hurt his knee this week. Not sure why or how, but he's been in some real pain that's proving slow to heal. Sucks. I've done all that I can to help him. Knee brace. Naproxen....
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11/09/2011
On Iowa's SD 18 (or how we're just plain better than NOM)
It wasn't about marriage, largely. Liz Mathis' victory over Republican Cindy Golding in Iowa's 18th Senate District was about jobs, education, local business, property taxes, and a whole host of other true concerns. But by and large, the state's marriage...
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NOM's Cultural Director knowingly asked you to support a 'weak' candidate. Weak.
Last night, just moments after we learned that Democrat Liz Mathis triumphed in her Iowa state Senate bid over the National Organization For Marriage's candidate, Republican Cindy Golding, NOM Cultural Director Thomas Peters tweeted the following about the GOP candidate:...
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11/08/2011
NOM Exposed: HRC takes national law firm Foley & Lardner to task for its relationship with NOM, Cleta Mitchell
Via Human Rights Campaign press release: HRC today criticized the national law firm Foley & Lardner for making anti-LGBT arguments and lobbying for anti-LGBT legislation as part of its representation of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), one of the...
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Discrimination Inc. takes stock of corporate practices; sells cheaply
The National Organization For Marriage is doing that thing that the social conservatives loves so much. Namely: They are taking obvious truths that nobody rejects, cherry picking certain commitments made by certain people in decision-making capacities, and structuring the whole...
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11/04/2011
Yesterday on NOM Exposed, I told you how the National Organization For Marriage, through its young Culture Director Thomas Peters, is planning on launching something called "NextGen For Marriage." Well apparently this weekend in/at Princeton, there will be the beginnings...
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11/02/2011
Will (DC and NJ-based) NOM's seemingly limitless, highly suspect funds buy Iowa's special election?
NOM has thrown nearly $10k more into Iowa's special state Senate race, putting their running total up to $37,082.85: [SOURCE: Iowa Ethics & Campaign Disclosure] NOM is backing Republican Cindy Golding over Democrat Liz Mathis because the GOP candidate has...
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11/01/2011
NOM finally responds to Obama photo snatching; response as egregious as the act itself
I'm not surprised that NOM failed to credit me or this site for discovering their egregious photo manipulation, since I have in my possession an intra-NOM email that instructs staffers to never respond to me. However, I am surprised by...
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10/28/2011
Brian Brown says he's winning hearts and minds; unfortunately for him, we're winning polls and ring fingers
Nine years ago, there were no states with marriage equality. Now there are six (and should be two more) plus D.C. Six years ago, the highly respected Gallup organization found support for same-sex marriage polling somewhere around 37%, with opposition...
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10/25/2011
Photo: A mutant strain of NOM misrepresentation (Part 2)
Last night, I showed you how the staunch pro-DOMA warriors at the National Organization For Marriage are using a crowd shot from a rally in support of now-President Obama, staunch anti-DOMA voice, in order to beef up their reliably paltry...
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10/24/2011
Photo: A mutant strain of NOM misrepresentation
In order to beef up the reliably poor attendance evidenced by their own rally photos, the National Organization For Marriage adorns its newly-launched New Hampshire for Marriage site with a collage featuring a small photo from their own effort combined...
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10/21/2011
NOM supporting (and fundraising around) what even GOP star Chris Christie called 'disturbing'
She actually said this: And she made comparisons like this: Oh, and she quite pointedly said that this is what she herself TEACHES: (full comments on Scribd, via Garden State Equality) It should be obvious why these comments would raise...
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NOM's Thomas Peters: Opposing marriage bans constitutes 'evil'; homosexuality 'hurts the human person'
Since National Organization For Marriage president Brian Brown is insistent that we are going to "hear a lot more about [NOM employee Thomas Peters] in the coming weeks and months," it might be a good time to look back at...
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