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Money Hard To Come By For Anti-Gay Groups

It is hard to tell how many times a group like One Million Moms has sent out some plea for money while claiming some kind of grand success this Holiday Season, but it is not surprising to hear that many of these anti-gay groups are starting to hurt for money. Recent studies have shown that the groups are often getting donations just from a small cadre of people who give a lot of money rather than having popular support.

For instance, the National Organization for Marriage has launched an attack on GOP Presidential contender Ron Paul calling him “wrong on marriage”, but they have also sent out letters pleading for money. This past Wednesday they sent out an email saying “NOM has never been able to financially match the tens of millions of dollars raised by interest groups who want to tear apart traditional values and attack people like you and me who defend the sanctity of marriage.”

NOM noted that they had a donor who was willing to match donations dollar-for-dollar, and that they had raised $831,718. Still, they have stated that they needed to “overcome a looming shortfall” back on 13 December. They wrote then that “Increasingly virulent and frequent attacks from the same-sex marriage lobby have depleted our emergency funds, and we need your help! NOM does not have the resources to accomplish everything we need to do…and with the many new and critical marriage battles upcoming in 2012, this is the exact wrong time for us to have to scale back.”

So, this means that there won’t be $2million pumped into the races in New York?

TalkingPointsMemo notes that:

The email came shortly after the American Independent released NOM’s 2010 tax returns, and reported that the group raised $9.6 million but spent over a million dollars more than that during the year, at $10.7 million.

The Family Research Council is, also, apparently in similar straits. On 16 December, they sent out an email saying “A generous friend of Family Research Council recently offered to match every donation given to our 2011 Year-End Fund Drive, up to $250,000. That means every dollar you give will be doubled by the Matching Grant! This is good news because FRC must raise $4 million between now and December 31 to end the year on budget, ready for the challenges of 2012.”

TPM also noted that:

Andy Pugno, the general counsel for Protect Marriage, the Proposition 8 legal defense fund, said in a fundraising email on Wednesday that his “greatest fear is that the Ninth Circuit’s decision could arrive at any minute, because right now we simply do not yet have enough money in the Defense Fund account to mount an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.”

“In fact,” Pugno continued, “we are still laboring to close a deficit left over from having to wage battle simultaneously in three different legal forums this year.”

It is not surprising that these groups are failing to raise money. The economy is tight, but there is also the reality that the American people are turning their backs on the whole anti-gay stuff. They no longer see same-sex marriage as destructive. With more and more Americans supporting same-sex marriage, that means fewer and fewer people are going to run out and squander money trying to keep it from not happening.