The ad may as well have said “Senator Algiere, We’re Coming For You!” The Westerly Sun reports that National Organization for Marriage in Rhode Island took out an over-the-top, full-page ad in the April 9 issue of their paper which read, in part: It is critical that Senator Algiere cast a NO vote on SB [...]

It’s been apparent for some time that Washington, D.C.-based National Organization for Marriage has been active in the ongoing marriage debates in the United Kingdom and France, although NOM has never admitted that it has any direct connection with the NOM-like organizations in these counties. Today we learn that these organizations appear NOM-like for a [...]

Marriage equality opponents have ramped up violent rhetoric, and anti-gay physical violence has sharply increased, in the wake of the recent approval of a marriage equality bill by the French Parliament. “Hollande wants blood, and he will get it,” Frigide Barjot, leader of France’s version of National Organization for Marriage, La Manif Por Tous, was [...]

It’s one of National Organization for Marriage’s favorite scare tactics: lead parents to believe that kids will “go gay” if they learn in school that marriage equality exists. Today NOM wheeled out the latest rendition of this old saw in a tweet: What would you do if your 8-year-old son came home from school and [...]

National Organization for Marriage in Rhode Island has tried to hide its motivation for opposing Rhode Island’s marriage equality bill — a fundamental disapproval of gays — behind the insupportable argument that if gays marry in the state, children will somehow suffer. “Defending marriage does not make anyone anti-gay,” they claim.  They also deny using [...]

No matter how much NOM tries to portray its anti-gay cause as “loving,” we can always count on the organization’s supporters to give us the real deal.

Although it was not their intention, National Organization for Marriage has posted a graph that proves that falling marriage rates in the United States cannot have been caused by the legalization of same-sex marriage. Despite NOM’s claim in the graph’s caption that “Marriage rates down, out-of-wedlock birth rates up. Conservatives may have correctly predicted the [...]

Lately it seems as though National Organization for Marriage in Rhode Island, the lynchpin of the opposition to Rhode Island’s marriage equality bill (H5015/S38), is just going through the motions. Perhaps NOM-RI agrees with Sen. Stephen Archambault (D-Smithfield) when he said of the marriage equality bill that “I’m confident it will pass” the upcoming vote [...]

Former National Organization for Marriage head Maggie Gallagher is the latest religious right figure to throw a distortion-filled hissy fit over the American Academy of Pediatricians’ recent support of marriage equality and same-sex households. In a piece in today’s National Review, Gallagher repeats the lie that the AAP ignored scientific data in its statement: There [...]

Controversy has arisen over whether Pope Francis advocated for a civil unions law in Argentina in 2010 while he served as Archbishop of Buenos Aires.  The New York Times and CNN quote sources saying that he did, while a source quoted by Catholic News Agency refutes those claims. If then-Archbishop Bergoglio didn’t advocate for civil [...]