Former NOM spokesmodel Carrie Prejean weighs in (montage: mine)
A marriage equality bill has just been passed in Washington DC. Let me be the first to condole Maggie Srivastav (née Gallagher) and Brian Brown and the National Organization for Opposite Marriage (NOOM) on the occasion of their horrifying avalanche (11-2) of a defeat in Washington DC.
Brian Brown butches it up for NOM’s followers:
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MARRIAGE
VOWS TO DC COUNCIL:
We Will Overturn Your Same-Sex Marriage Bill“We have one message for David Catania and the rest of these politicians today: this fight is not over.
We will go to Congress, we will go to the courts, we will fight for the people’s right to vote and we will win!”
- Brian Brown, Executive Director, NOM -(WASHINGTON) – The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) released the following statement today in response to the D.C. Council’s passage of a same-sex marriage bill:
“The people of D.C. have a right, guaranteed by the charter, which is D.C.’s constitution, to vote to protect marriage. Politicians on the city council are acting as if they have the right through legislation to deprive citizens of D.C. of their core civil right to vote, but we will not let them get away with it,” said Brian Brown, Executive Director of NOM. “We have one message for David Catania and the rest of these politicians today: this fight is not over. We will go to Congress, we will go to the courts, we will fight for the people’s right to vote and we will win!”
NOM has led successful campaigns to protect marriage in states across the country, including victories in California in 2008 and most recently in Maine in November, 2009, as well as legislative battles to block gay marriage in New York (where gay marriage failed in the Senate by a lopsided vote of 38 no to 24 yes).
To schedule an interview with Brian Brown, Executive Director for the National Organization for Marriage, please contact Elizabeth Ray, eray@crcpublicrelations.com, (x130) or Mary Beth Hutchins, mhutchins@crcpublicrelations.com, (x105) at 703-683-5004.
That elegantly thin plume of rising smoke on the distant horizon, was that Bigot Harry Jackson’s head?
From the Washington Post a few minutes ago:
Even before the vote, opponents of same-sex marriage were gearing up to try to fight the bill in Congress and the courts.
“The city council’s action today is not the final word. The issue is far from over,” Bishop Harry Jackson, pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, said in a statement Monday.
Jackson has aligned with Robert King, a longtime Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner in Northeast, the Rev. Walter Fauntroy, a former civil rights leader who was a longtime pastor at New Bethel Baptist Church, and several other religious leaders to try to force a referendum to outlaw same-sex marriage.
I expect Bigot Jackson and the rest of ilk will have much more unpleasantness to spew shortly. Stay tuned.
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