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NOM carpetbaggers warn DC residents to watch out for carpetbaggers

NOM-funded mailers are flooding DC with BS (graphic: The National Organization for Marriage) The National Organization for Marriage’s modus operandi is spending oodles of mystery manna from their Mormon and Catholic financiers while blitzkrieging from state to state, meddling in local political affairs, targeting gay-friendly politicians, suing state-level election ethics boards, and influencing elections with [...]

Matt Baume’s brilliant takedown of NOM’s Prop H8 lies

Takedown of NOM’s Lies About Prop 8 (video: stop8org at YouTube) Well done, Matt. Over at http://stop8.org, we see a lot of silly claims about Prop 8, but the new radio ad put out by the National Organization for Marriage last week is just out-and-out deceitful. It’s packed full of lies and misrepresentations, so we [...]

NOM’s ‘gathering storm’ has become an ‘earthquake’

How do they love us? Let us count NOM’s lies. Exodus Ministries stripped of tax-exempt status in New Zealand ~ NOM Blog An earthquake is beginning: If “gay is like black,” then “Christian is like racist.” The early warning signs are now taking place all over the globe. In New Zealand, Exodus Ministries was just [...]

NOM: ‘GOP elites try to throw marriage under the bus’

Apparently, the National Organization for Marriage just got the memo. The common sense end of the GOP is about to throw the gay-hating, Bible-banging nutters who hijacked their party under the bus. But don’t pop that cork quite yet. As does anything that issues forth from Queen Maggie and her personal Igor, Brian Brown, this [...]

An earlier gathering storm

Gathering Storm 1960′s Parody (video: FireproofAshes at YouTube) “If coloreds are allowed to marry whites, what’s next … homosexuals?” Love it. Fireproof Ashes: A good ol’ fashioned commercial from the 60′s, upholding traditional values and fighting against the evils of the day. This is a satire of the original NOM Gathering Storm advertisement, located here [...]

The low-down on Alveda, the black sheep of the King family

Salon.com’s War Room has a must-read on the radical religious right’s latest attention-ho anti-gay, anti-choice voice, (she’s not a real) Dr Alveda Beal King. King’s academic credentials have also raised eyebrows. She is regularly referred to as “Dr. Alveda King” in promotional material, although her doctorate is an honorary one, bestowed by St. Anselm College, [...]

Will Philips: The ten-year-old antidote to NOM’s traveling echo chamber

Will Phillips speaks at Big Commit, the counter demonstration, 15 August (video: Metro Weekly at YouTube) Metro Weekly: Arkansas elementary school student Will Phillips, who made headlines in 2009 when he refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance in class because the nation doesn’t recognize LGBT people as equal, speaks to the Sunday, Aug. 15, [...]

Meet the NOMmies

DC- Rowdy NOM religious fanatics (video: NOMTourTracker.com at YouTube) They’re just simple down home folks like you and me, only some of them want folks like you and me executed or denied or deprived of our civil rights. Here are a few fans and followers of the National Organization for Marriage’s fabulous, if poorly attended, [...]

NOM touts screwy poll that says 57% of Americans oppose gay marriage

The National Organization for Marriage is flaunting a new Public Policy Polling poll that they say proves the United States of America is still every bit as bigoted as the NOMmies are. I say, there’s something fishy going on here. Take a close look at this demographic breakdown: Americans within pretty much every demographic group [...]

Maggie Gallagher and Brian Brown still furiously twisting NOM’s knickers

Emergency! Emergency! Must stop those evil California gays from tying the knot. Yawn. Yes on Prop H8 now suddenly claims to have lots of arguments against marriage equality, but, as you read NOM president Brian Brown‘s breathless intro (“I’ve never seen a smackdown of a judge quite like it”), recall that Yes on Prop 8′s [...]

God Delusioned: Brian Brown

“Once again, voters have sent a message to politicians that supporting gay marriage is a career-ending move. We sent two district-wide mailings and paid for a newspaper ad to make sure that voters in this district knew their [Minnesota] state Senator wanted to legalize gay marriage. As a result, Senator Koering was trounced. “NOM has [...]

Ta-Nehisi Coates: ‘Race and gay marriage in perspective’

Someone really should let the National Organization for Marriage‘s shills, Bigot George McKinney and Bigot Harry Jackson, know they’ve maxed out their race card claiming there’s no similarity between interracial marriage and marriage equality. Veteran journalist and Science Blogs blogger, Ed Brayton points to an essay by Ta-Nehisi Coates, who observes that “in some ways, [...]

Motormouth Maggie Gallagher mouths off and melts down on AC 360

Evan Wolfson shines as the ill-mannered Maggie Gallagher lays on the malarkey (video: Anderson Cooper’s 360 via SuchIsLifeVideos at YouTube) (tip: Truth Wins Out) Oh Papa Tooney. We’ve got a Looney.

NOM’s Brian Brown attempts to have his way with the US Constitution

What has been gushing out of the National Organization for Marriage’s black hole since yesterday afternoon, when Judge Walker declared California’s Prop H8 unconstitutional, is beyond merely insulting. Just how ignorant do these professional anti-gays, like NOM‘s President Brian Brown, really think the American people are? Or, are they just talking amongst themselves? It’s a [...]

Mrs Srivastav’s holy cow moment in the Chronicle

Mrs Raman Srivastav — AKA Maggie Gallagher — had her steely mask of propriety ripped away yesterday by Judge Walker’s ruling that California’s discriminatory Prop H8 is unconstitutional, and, holy mother of pearl and hot damn!, if the National Organization for Marriage‘s matriarch hasn’t revealed herself as the unhinged, race-baiting, gay-loathing nut-case most of us [...]