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Lonely National Organization for Marriage is stacking the deck. Apparently NOM was unable to find outside sponsorship for its planned standout for discrimination on March 26, the day that the Supreme Court begins hearing the Prop 8 and DOMA cases. NOM’s event sponsors are projects of NOM or organizations staffed by former or current officers of NOM:
- Manhattan Declaration was drafted by Robert P. George, chairman emeritus of NOM.
- CatholicVote.org a.k.a. Fidelis Center for Law and Justice has at least two close connections to NOM. Board Member Thomas Peters is NOM’s current communications director and former communications director of NOM-linked American Principles Project. CatholicVote.org’s Marriage and Family page features a “get involved” essay by NOM’s former chairman, Maggie Gallagher.
- The Ruth Institute is “a project of National Organization for Marriage”.
- ActRight’s founder and chairman is Brian Brown, NOM’s president.
- American Principles Project was founded by NOM chairman emeritus, Robert P. George. Another former NOM chairman, Maggie Gallagher is on its board. Its former communications director Thomas Peters is NOM’s current communications director.
NOM’s Facebook page for the May 26th event currently has 1,421 “likes”. Yesterday that “like” tally was surpassed by March 4 Marriage, a Facebook page set up to help organize pro-equality events happening in Washington, D.C. and across the nation on March 26 & 27.
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NOM is suffering from both donor fatigue and increased public awareness that NOM doesn’t always tell the truth about gay people (they love to infer that gay people are evil child molesting monsters).
The more that average straight citizens are exposed to gay people will only continue this trend.
If not for the Catholic Church and its more than ample coffers I might think that NOM might blow away.
Message to the Catholic Church: You can continue to funnel money to NOM but you can’t get out of paying restitution to people you victimized. You aren’t broke if you can fund NOM.
In planning this march, I think Brian Brown and Robert George and Harry Jackson and the U.S. Catholic bishops are showing that they don’t understand why the 1963 March on Washington was memorable–why it persists and will continue to persist in the memory of the nation–why it is the standard to which all other marches are compared and none have ever come anywhere near touching.
The March on Washington was a gathering of people saying we’re Americans too, we’re equal, and this mall is our place as much as it is any other American’s place. It was a march for equality. It was a march to expand civil rights.
NOM’s march is a march to deny rights. It’s a march that won’t be remembered well in the consciousness of the nation. And I’d ask anyone considering joining NOM’s march to think hard about what they are doing by joining those marchers. Think of George Wallace’s regret.
Has anyone tried checking out the source of the crowd picture used in their flyer? They have a history of stealing photos to increase the appearance of support (http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2011/10/photo-a-mutant-strain-of-nom-misrepresentation.html#jsid-1319555228-979 and http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2011/10/photo-a-mutant-strain-of-nom-misrepresentation-part-2.html).
I’d expect they stole this one as well. Several people can be seen carrying white signs but the text is too blurry to make out. The only other distinguishing items I can see at the citibank, captial one and a TIAA-CREF center. Does anyone recognize the decorative flags on the poles perhaps?
It’s from their NYC hate march where they bussed in people. But there is still a funny twist:
http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2013/02/omg-my-legally-married-gay-husband-is-totally-in-noms-march-for-marriage-flyer.html
Thanks! That was quick work ^_^