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NOM Sounding More Desperate For Money
The National Organization for Marriage appears to be entering into panic mode. Back when Maggie Gallagher ran the show, there was at least some semblance of intellectual discourse, even if it was often a pack of lies coming out of NOM. Now, it’s just fear mongering.
Brian Brown recently wrote:
“I need to update you with some distressing news. As I write this update from Tampa, in preparation for the 2012 GOP convention, it appears our fight to defend marriage this fall will be even tougher than we anticipated…Bottom line: if people of faith don’t immediately stand up to match the homosexual lobby’s money, gay “marriage” will be imposed as the law of the land for all of us. We can win this fight but not unless Christians and marriage supporters step up their contributions right now.
So please read my email below to support our action plan with an immediate contribution. I’m counting on your urgently needed support as this fight is bigger than even we originally thought.
Um…so, if same-sex marriage is passed, straight people are going to be forced into gay marriages? That seems to be what Brown is saying. Brown recently had a bunch of vacuous (on his part) debates with Dan Savage about same-sex marriage. Brown and his buddies had to pay for a misleading study that has gotten their pet researcher into some serious trouble with his University as well.
Brown and company know that their arguments for marriage inequality are on shaky ground. They do not have any legitimate data that backs up their position, and they are terrified that their cash cow is about to be headed for a few hundred pounds of ground beef.
6 Responses to NOM Sounding More Desperate For Money
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Shevmonster
August 25, 2012 at 5:33 pm
Well, 2 Lesbian couples may have just given them the tools they need to win. By filing and winning a lawsuit against an Inn in Vermont and a photographer in New Mexico for not accommodating their ceremonies, these 2 couples have given concrete proof to exactly the most powerful charge that NOM has made, which is that our marriages are going to be imposed on everyone else and that people do not have a right to disagree. This is political suicide for the LGBT rights movement. These 2 lawsuits are incredibly ill-considered and frankly, in my opinion, a violation of these people’s first amendment rights to freedom of religion and speech. It is one thing to force a corporation to not discriminate against employees and customers based on sexual orientation. It is another thing entirely to force a freelance photographer or and Inn owned by a married couple to actively participate in a wedding to which they fundamentally object on religious grounds. I am in pretty desperate need to have my marriage recognized by the federal government because my husband has run out of options regarding immigration and before long I’ll be forced into exile from my own country in order to live with my spouse because of DOMA, and I am astonished and apoplectic that these lawsuits have happened now, just in time to make NOM’s charges about religious freedom true. I am astonished, moreover, that the ACLU would support such suits when clearly the defendents were exercising legitimate rights of freedom of religion and speech. This is a PR catastrophe for our movement and will set us all back. Many many gay and Lesbian couples will suffer due to this stupidity and selfishness on the part of these couples. I understand how hurtful it is to confront this bigotry. It really really hurts. But what these couples have done, their stupidity, has inflicted unforgivable damage on other gay and Lesbian couples, and some of us are in really desperate situations. They’ve not helped anyone. They’ve just undermined EVERYTHING we have been working for.
Jal Marie
August 26, 2012 at 11:17 am
The first amendment in no way gives any right to discriminate against anyone. You clearly need to research the first amendment and the laws of the United States. This was a discrimination suit, no business can discriminate on the grounds of their religious beliefs and it does not in any way violate anyone’s free speech nor does it violate any ones freedom to worship the god of their choice in the church of their choice.
If the court would have ruled against the Lesbian couple then there would have been a violation of the first amendment which would be the Establishment Clause as the first sentence of the first amendment clearly takes any and all authority away from religion.
This suit in no way plays into the hands of NOM nor does it support anything they promote. In fact this suit is one of many reasons for NOM having financial troubles as the article clearly points out.
Esperando
August 28, 2012 at 10:44 am
@Shevmonster, When did New Mexico legalize same-sex marriage? Oh that’s right, never. So in fact, it wasn’t marriage equality that got the baker in trouble, it was the fact that he violated anti-discrimination laws that apply to all public accommodations. You can’t deny services or products based solely on sexual orientation in New Mexico; that’s the law. So basically, your argument amounts to a claim that not being able to practice invidious discrimination against customers – who support your business with their tax dollars by funding roads that bring customers, health and safety inspections that render your services trustworthy in the eyes of the public, and subsidies and tax incentives that your business relies on is a violation of the business YOUR rights. You poor baby…
adamas
August 25, 2012 at 4:08 pm
Who’d want the meat from a rotting cow?
Bridgette P. LaVictoire
August 25, 2012 at 4:29 pm
well, there’s vultures…they’d love it.
adamas
August 25, 2012 at 7:04 pm
The ones around here prefer skunk.