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NOM Pledges Opposition To Gay Marriage In Maine

OIA Staff — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:50:47 +0000

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) on Thursday pledged to work against a proposed referendum that would legalize gay marriage in Maine. Shortly after supporters in Maine announced they would return to the ballot box this November, NOM, the nation’s most vociferous opponent of the institution, pledged to work against the effort. “NOM intends to [...]

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Rick Perry Signs Pledge against Same-sex Marriage

OIA Staff — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:36:59 +0000

Rick Perry signed a pledge Friday to back a federal constitutional amendment against gay marriage. The move is a reversal from only a month ago when the Texas governor said he supported individual states’ rights and that he was fine with New York’s approval of same-sex marriage. The pledge by the National Organization for Marriage [...]

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National Organization for Marriage Forced to Hand over Previously Undisclosed Tax Returns

OIA Staff — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:17:30 +0000

Following an onsite request by the Human Rights Campaign, the National Organization for Marriage today released its 2009 Form 990, the tax return they are required to submit to the IRS. NOM dated its 990 November 14, 2010, yet did not disclose it publicly until today when it gave an HRC representative a hard-copy of [...]

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Family Research Council, American Family Association Named As Anti-Gay Hate Groups

OIA Staff — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:23:20 +0000

Yesterday, the Southern Poverty Law Center added five more groups to its list of anti-gay hate groups, including some names that are long overdue. The new groups are: American Family Association Americans for Truth About Homosexuality Dove World Outreach Center Family Research Council Illinois Family Institute This brings the total of anti-gay hate groups to [...]

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National Organization for Marriage Poured $5M into Campaigns of Fear But Lost More Than It Won

OIA Staff — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:37:34 +0000

Today, the Human Rights Campaign and the Courage Campaign released a report card on the political activities of the so-called, anti-gay National Organization for Marriage (NOM) that shows a mixed outcome this election cycle despite pouring an estimated $5 million into federal and state campaigns in the 2009-2010 election cycles. NOM endorsed at least 29 [...]

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Iowa Courts Hijacked By National Organization for Marriage Intimidation Campaign

OIA Staff — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:53:32 +0000

Marriage equality remains law in Iowa After tonight’s defeat of the three Iowa state Supreme Court justices who ruled in favor of marriage equality last year, the Human Rights Campaign and Courage Campaign condemned the National Organization for Marriage’s efforts to intimidate judges across the country. NOM’s president Brian Brown has admitted that his group’s [...]

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Judge dismisses anti-gay marriage ad suit

OIA Staff — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:00:21 +0000

A federal judge has rejected a challenge to New York’s election law brought by an anti-gay marriage group that’s drafted political ads in support of Carl Paladino, the Republican candidate for governor. The Washington, D.C.-based National Organization for Marriage argued last week it wanted to run ads for Paladino without reporting donors’ names or adhering [...]

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NOM’s Maggie Gallagher: No Blood on Her Hands for LGBT Teen Deaths

OIA Staff — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:28:42 +0000

National Organization for Marriage’s Maggie Gallagher says she and other anti gay marriage activists are not responsible for the recently reported stories of LGBT teens committing suicide. Speaking to the statistic that “LGBT teens are four times as likely as other students to attempt suicide,” Gallagher says the “it’s homophobia pulling the trigger” narrative isn’t [...]

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Courage Campaign staffer assaulted on NOM’s new California tour

OIA Staff — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:49:20 +0000

A Courage Campaign staffer was just assaulted by a man associated with the National Organization for Marriage’s bus tour across California — a statewide tour launched in support of Carly Fiorina. Anthony Ash, a Courage field staffer, was assaulted when he tried to film the latest stop on NOM’s “Vota Tus Valores/Vote Your Values” tour [...]

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Federal Court Dismisses National Organization for Marriage Lawsuit Challenging Disclosure Laws

OIA Staff — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:17:55 +0000

A federal court yesterday dismissed a lawsuit by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) filed last month in Rhode Island. NOM, the leading anti-LGBT force in the country, argued that it should be able to run ads on behalf of Rhode Island Republican gubernatorial candidate John Robitaille, who strongly opposes marriage equality, without having to [...]

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HRC & Courage Campaign Reveal the Real National Organization for Marriage

OIA Staff — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:09:14 +0000

As the National Organization for Marriage, or NOM, embarks on a fall election campaign to defeat candidates who support full marriage equality, the Human Rights Campaign, in collaboration with the Courage Campaign, unveiled “NOM Exposed,” a live, interactive website which reveals NOM’s deep anti-gay affiliations, its long connections to the Mormon and Catholic churches and [...]

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NOM Files Yet Another Lawsuit Challenging Disclosure Laws

OIA Staff — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:24:55 +0000

As part of its radical nationwide efforts to dismantle state laws that provide transparency about who is funding political campaigns, the National Organization for Marriage this week filed suit in Rhode Island seeking to have their disclosure laws ruled unconstitutional. The suit comes the same week as NOM lost in federal court in Minnesota on [...]

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NOM’s Big Spending in Iowa

OIA Staff — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:15:09 +0000

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), which has a history of trying to defeat pro-equality state candidates in Iowa, this week reported spending more than $235,000 on a television ad that targets three justices on the Iowa Supreme Court who were part of a unanimous 2009 decision ruling that the equal protection provision of the [...]

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NOM Calls New Zealand Exodus Decision An Earthquake, Says ‘Christian is like Racist’

OIA Staff — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:41:04 +0000

“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 stripped of its tax-exempt status, on the grounds that helping gay people lead Christian lives is not a charity.” – National Organization [...]

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NOM Creates ‘Breaking News’ Program from Their 23-City Hate Tour

OIA Staff — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:08:31 +0000

As you probably know, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is on a 23-city hate-a-palooza tour spreading the message about how they want to take and keep rights away from gay people. Since the begining of the Marriage Tour, NOM has attempted some of the most pathetic attempts playing the victim and their propaganda videos possibly the most ridiculous [...]

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Judge rules in Maine gay marriage case

OIA Staff — Tue, 25 May 2010 18:02:31 +0000

A federal magistrate judge is recommending that information about donors to the National Organization for Marriage that helped to finance a successful referendum campaign to repeal Maine’s gay marriage law last fall be turned over to a state election regulatory board. The ethics commission voted last October to examine the National Organization for Marriage ‘s $1.9 million contributions after [...]

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NOM TV ad attacks MN Gov candidates

OIA Staff — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:44:49 +0000

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is at it again, this time with an ad that attacks Minnesota Gov candidates, Mark Dayton, Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Matt Entenza and Tom Horner, for supporting the legalization of gay marriage. An organization called the National Organization for Marriage takes responsibility. The ad says that in addition to favoring legalization, [...]

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Following 1st Witness Disastrous Showing, Protect Marriage’s 2nd Witness Says Gay Marriage Is Good

OIA Staff — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:29:50 +0000

When The Gays first learned that Ted Olson, uber-conservative and defender of George W. Bush’s presidency, would be taking the lead in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the case to decide gay marriage at a federal level, many folks, including Gay Inc. leaders, were suspicious of his motives. Was this guy going to purposefully throw the trial [...]

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NOM Doesn’t Want Rhode Island’s Gays to Have Rights In Life. Or Death

OIA Staff — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:26:50 +0000

If you thought the National Organization for Marriage only concerned itself with “redefining” the “institution of marriage,” you’d be wrong. Now Maggie Gallagher & Co. are getting into the death industry. With Rhode Island’s legislators weighing whether there’s enough support to overturn anti-gay Gov. Don Carcieri’s veto of a bill that would have let the [...]

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Anti-Gay NOM Considered for Chase Bank Charity

OIA Staff — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:49:25 +0000

Chase Bank is running a contest called ‘Community Giving’ for users to select charities worthy of receiving a chunk of a 5 million dollar donation by the bank. Among the non-profits listed are the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage. NOM being on the list is a direct violation of Chase’s own non-discrimination policy: “Chase Community [...]

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Gay Marriage Lost, But It’s Not Losing

OIA Staff — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:08:35 +0000

Opponents of same-sex marriage waxed triumphant recently when voters in Maine rejected a measure allowing gays to wed. Maggie Gallagher, head of the National Organization for Marriage, crowed, “This victory in Maine interrupts the cultural narrative that was being manufactured, that somehow American opinion is shifting on the gay marriage issue.” But she and her [...]

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Money Laundering by NOM in Maine Election?

OIA Staff — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:33:03 +0000

Californians Against Hate founder Fred Karger sent a letter today warning top Maine election officials of possible money laundering by opponents of same-sex marriage. The organization trying to overturn Maine’s same-sex marriage law, Stand for Marriage PAC recently turned in 100,000 signatures to place the question on the November ballot. These gay marriage foes hope [...]

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National Organization for Marriage Loses Effort to Keep Names of Donors Disclosed in Maine

OIA Staff — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:50:25 +0000

The New Jersey-based National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has been fighting to keep the names of donors to the “Yes on 1″ campaign in Maine private. They lost: “Judge D. Brock Hornby ruled that Maine’s reporting requirements for ballot question campaigns do not violate the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution as claimed in a [...]

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Anti-Marriage Equality Group Wonders Why Should The Elderly, Childless and Infertile Get Married

OIA Staff — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:05:45 +0000

“One might ask, why are you getting a marriage license anyway?” That is the question that was asked by an Iowa Family Policy Center spokesman at a 16 September marriage equality debate with regards to not only the marriage of gays and lesbians, but of the elderly, the childless, and the infertile. In other words, [...]

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National Organization for Marriage Is 3 Months Late With IRS Reports. And It Doesn’t Care

OIA Staff — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:10:23 +0000

After visiting the National Organization for Marriage’s offices in New Jersey, twice, trying to get copies of the non-profit’s 990 reports back in May, Californians Against Hate filed a formal complaint with the IRS. This month, the group filed another complaint alleging NOM and other religious-affiliated groups are engaged in money laundering campaigns in Maine. [...]

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UPDATE:Tim Hortons Pulls Sponsorship from Anti-Gay National Org for Marriage Cookout

OIA Staff — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:09:26 +0000

Canadian coffee and doughnut chain Tim Hortons is sponsoring the National Organization for Marriage’s anti-gay cookout and worship service on Aug. 16 at Aldrich Mansion in suburban Providence, Rhode Island. Tim Hortons’ sponsorship of the National Organization for Marriage appears to be in violation of corporate policy against support for religious and political causes. UPDATE: [...]

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