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Proponents of North Carolina marriage amendment known for anti-gay attacks
Among the groups affiliated with the new Vote for Marriage NC is the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). The group has been involved in several high-profile marriage initiatives, including California’s 2008 Proposition 8 and Maine’s 2009 Question 1. Additionally, NOM took a high-profile stance against New York’s legislative push to approve marriage equality there this year.
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Maggie Gallagher: serving up hate, bigotry at the Thanksgiving table
Maggie Gallagher, the former chair of the notoriously anti-gay National Organization for Marriage, is offering some advice for serving up a heaping helping of hate and bigotry at your Thanksgiving table this year.
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Supreme Court won’t block release of signatures on anti-gay petitions
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block release of names of those who signed petitions favoring Washington State’s Referendum 71, the unsuccessful 2009 ballot initiative to overturn the state’s “everything but marriage” rights for same-sex domestic partners.
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NOM-promoted column: Gay activists worse than terrorists, should fear being ‘spat’ on
On November 17, the National Organization for Marriage’s (NOM) Ruth Institute posted a blog entry titled “Who are the Most Loathsome People in the World?” The entry was written by NOM blogger Ari Mendelson and followed the same pattern of his previous posts …
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Minnesota for Marriage soft peddling its message of bigotry
The group Minnesota for Marriage wants folks to forget that the organizations which comprise it – National Organization for Marriage and the Minnesota Family Council – operate to attack and demonize same-sex families through their various tactics.
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National Organization for Marriage now attacking candidate it supported
The National Organization for Marriage is finally commenting on its embarrassing loss Tuesday night in the Iowa state senatorial election. From NOM Cultural Director Thomas Peters comes a tweet which should be remembered.
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Have the leaders of the National Organization for Marriage gone into hiding?
Is it just me or have the spokespersons and leaders of the National Organization for Marriage decided to go into hiding? NOM’s president Brian Brown has gone AWOL when it comes to public speaking. Not that he was a good one in the first place…
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NOM rips off photo of Obama rally, depicts it as anti-gay marriage event
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 with an unidentified shot of a sweepingly large crowd…
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Audacity alert: NOM wants Obama to pay for Boehner’s junk science
The National Organization for Marriage on Monday really decided to raise the bar for unashamed audacity. The organization is now demanding that Obama’s Justice Department pay for Speaker of the House John Boehner’s defense of DOMA (the Defense of Marriage Act):
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Federal judge rules against backers of Prop 8 in campaign disclosure suit
A federal judge on Thursday ruled against two anti-gay groups who were both proponents of the Proposition 8 ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage in California, saying they had failed to prove that they should be exempt from California’s campaign disclosure laws.