In a new piece, Mother Jones charts the rapidly accelerating descent of the National Organization for Marriage from its shadowy beginnings as a venomous bunch of Mormon money-fueled, anti-gay theocrats eager to eliminate the civil rights of their fellow citizens into a shambolic, rudderless steaming pile of stink that seems to have forgotten which direction is morally up. The NOMies now find themselves on the verge of having their asses handed to them in a federal court case — Perry v Schwarzenegger — that will undoubtedly wind its way up to the US Supreme Court, while, at the same time, NOM is fighting multiple legal battles on multiple fronts in their seedy and relentless crusade to conceal the identities of their constituents. These poor deluded suckers actually thought, or were promised, they’d be able to hate on the gays with impunity, but, now, they clearly don’t want to go down in history revealed as the bigots they are.
Gay Marriage Foes: ‘Til Disclosure Do Us Part?
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The National Organization for Marriage was on a roll — until it wedded its campaign to a multistate legal effort to keep its donors secret.
When the National Organization for Marriage succeeded in banning gay marriage in California in 2008 through the ballot measure known as Proposition 8, it looked like the movement was on a roll. That same day, similar measures passed in Arizona and Florida. Anti-gay-marriage activists seized on these victories, bragging that they had delivered a crushing blow to nationwide efforts to legalize same-sex marriage.
Those activists don’t seem quite so smug these days. That’s because they’ve been on a losing streak: In the past month alone, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) and its allies have suffered a series of significant legal setbacks, culminating with last week’s nearly unanimous Supreme Court ruling in a case arising from a Washington State ballot measure. Collectively, these defeats, in states from California to Maine, could make it much harder for these activists to wage war on gay marriage.
Mother Jones is right: “NOM really has no one to blame but itself.”
I propose we establish a national coming out day for anti-equality bigots. New traditions might include the wearing of pointy hoods and televised lying bees, in which contestants are urged to tell the most horrendous anti-gay lies they can make up on the spot. The contestants with the biggest, nastiest, vilest homophobic lies win a Maggie Gallagher bobble-head.
