In the wake of the hate-motivated murder last week of Mark Carson in New York City’s Greenwich Village — just one in a string of anti-transgender and anti-gay hate crimes plaguing the city, LGBT rights activist Scott Wooledge challenged LGBT rights opponents to repudiate the violence: LGBT rights orgs have been very clear violence will [...]

In a glass houses moment, National Organization for Marriage president Brian Brown chucked stones at the gays last week after the Minnesota House passed the bipartisan marriage equality bill.  Mr. Brown wrote: The recent actions in Minnesota should serve as a wakeup call to other states that have not yet passed Marriage Protection Amendments: if you [...]

The above comment was left on a recent post of the National Organization for Marriage’s blog by a longtime NOM blog commentator and supporter Barb Chamberlan (she has posted over 2,000 times on NOM’s blog alone): It’s always fascinating to Google the names of children in the grips of same-sex couples. You’ll be surprised at [...]

How low can the National Organization for Marriage go in attacking marriage equality and same-sex families? Apparently this low via Thomas Peters, its communications director. Marriage equality does not deprive children of anything. Also, same-sex families give children a home with love. Peters’ question is a straw man argument based upon the fallacy that the [...]

Delaware’s marriage equality bill (HB75) seems close to final passage, with a floor vote scheduled in the Senate on Tuesday, May 7.  The House has already passed the bill and Governor Jack Markell, who introduced it in early April, has promised to sign it into law. National Organization for Marriage has apparently expected to lose the [...]

After the Iowa Supreme Court’s unanimous 2009 ruling that the state’s same-sex marriage ban was unconstitutional, National Organization for Marriage began a campaign to oust all seven justices.  In 2010, the three justices up for retention votes that year fell victim to NOM’s retribution.  (Voters retained the justice up for re-election in 2012). NOM seemed [...]

Apparently the joke is on anyone who gave time or treasure to National Organization for Marriage in Rhode Island, the group that has spent the past five years trying to block passage of Rhode Island’s new marriage equality law.  Here’s what NOM-RI’s executive director Chris Plante told New York Times after Gov. Lincoln Chafee signed the [...]

National Organization for Marriage has sent some pathetic emails before, but the smell of desperation is particularly pungent in this latest. On the heels of losing marriage equality ballot measures last year in Washington, Minnesota, Maine and Maryland, and marriage equality legislative efforts in France and Rhode Island this year (so far), NOM has nothing [...]

In a scathing blog post written the day after Rhode Island became the tenth marriage equality state, the radical-right anti-gay organization MassResistance takes National Organization for Marriage to task for “drop[ping] the ball” in the effort to keep marriage discriminatory: … We admire a lot of what the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) does for [...]

In the wake of major marriage equality victories this week in France, Rhode Island, Delaware and Nevada, marriage discrimination purveyor National Organization for Marriage is asking supporters to send them money.  From yesterday’s email with the subject line of “We’ve Got Work To Do…”: … I want to assure you: NOM is NOT giving up [...]