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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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The Nuptial News – General Gayety

OIA Staff — Wed, 11 May 2011 16:19:12 +0000

On these shores, the struggle for same-sex marriage has been as wobbly as a tipsy bride. Look at Rhode Island. Hopes were high that Little Rhody would become the sixth state to allow gay marriage. But House Speaker Gordon Fox announced the legislation wouldn’t pass the Senate, so he was backing civil unions instead. Rhode [...]

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MAINE: Federal Judge Rejects NOM’s Attempt To Hide Names Of Donors

OIA Staff — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:28:10 +0000

A federal judge ruled yesterday that Maine’s campaign finance disclosure law is constitutional, rejecting NOM’s long-running battle to hide the names of its donors. via. Read the full article @ MAINE: Federal Judge Rejects NOM’s Attempt To Hide Names Of Donors Read more articles @ our blogBecome a fan on FacebookFollow us on Twitter

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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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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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Outlawing Gay Marriage Will Help Save the Economy

OIA Staff — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:42:12 +0000

Tamara Scott of the Concerned Women for America claimed that outlawing gay marriage will improve the economy: “It costs you, the taxpayer, as high as $280 billion a year for fragmented families, that’s according to the Family Research Council, May 14, 2009. That’s three trillion a decade…If we would correct the breakdown of the family [...]

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HRC to NOM: Your summer bus tour is a sham

OIA Staff — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:59:47 +0000

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) today challenged the National Organization for Marriage’s so-called “Summer for Marriage” bus tour, saying it’s nothing more than legal and rhetorical posturing in its campaign to keep its donor base secret. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, today challenged [...]

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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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Maggie predicts that she’ll lose Perry

OIA Staff — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:04:24 +0000

Maggie Gallagher of the National Organization for [gay-free] Marriage has posted her expectations based on the closing statement in Perry v. Schwarzenegger. Chuck Cooper is a heckuva lawyer. At stake in this case is the future of marriage in all 50 states, and he’s right that this attempt to shut down the debate by constitutionalizing [...]

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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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Maggie Gallagher Stepping Down as NOM president

OIA Staff — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:13:44 +0000

Maggie Gallagher, President and Co-Founder of the nation’s most aggressive anti-gay marriage group, is stepping down from her position, leaving NOM executive director Brian Brown to run it. Of course Maggie will not be leaving completely, as she has much more hate to spread and will remain on the Executive Committee of the Board of [...]

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Five Years, Five Gay Ads Rejected by CBS

OIA Staff — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:14:13 +0000

Over the past five years the network CBS has refused to air commercials that feature gay advocacy or a gay theme during the Superbowl. The ads either promote a positive message, or are harmless corporate marketing ploys. They have also receiving failing grades with respect to LGBT coverage and have been show to pander to [...]

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The Dinah Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary Milestone: Raising The DINAH’STY to a Historical Zenith!

OIA Staff — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:01:35 +0000

For all lesbians, springs means one thing: The Dinah! Ladies across the nation and around the world rush, as early as November, to get their bodies in shape, buy their bikinis, select their sexy soiree accoutrements, and book their MUST ATTEND annual trip to Club Skirts Presents The Dinah (www.TheDinah.com) Celebrating the milestone 20th Anniversary [...]

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LGBT Advocates Decry Efforts of Anti-Gay Marriage Group to Swing Senate Race to Brown

OIA Staff — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:05:51 +0000

Leaders in the LGBT community today responded sharply to reports that the National Organization of Marriage (NOM) placed thousands of robo-calls to Massachusetts voters on Saturday, urging them to defeat “radical” Martha Coakley because of her support of same-sex marriage. MassEquality and the Human Rights campaign were joined by Congressman Barney Frank and State Representative [...]

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Ted Olson Opening Statement in Federal Challenge to Prop 8

OIA Staff — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:20:56 +0000

Ted Olson’s opening statement in the federal challenge to Prop 8: This case is about marriage and equality. Plaintiffs are being denied both the right to marry, and the right to equality under the law. The Supreme Court of the United States has repeatedly described the right to marriage as “one of the vital personal [...]

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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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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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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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Why Gay Guys Are Churchier Than Their Straight Brethren

OIA Staff — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:04:15 +0000

As America’s leading Christian denominations are once again feuding and splitting over whether they should allow gays and lesbians to marry, or ordain them as clergy, is it a miracle there are any gay Christians? Given Christianity’s history of exclusion and often outright homophobia, and the current bloodletting over their role, why do homosexuals bother [...]

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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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Obama to NAACP: Anti-Gay Discrimination Has No Place in America

OIA Staff — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:22:11 +0000

President Obama addressed the NAACP at its Centennial Convention this evening in New York. In a speech mentioning the economy, health care, education and HIV/AIDS, he also addressed the issue of discrimination, calling for an end to prejudice against minority groups, specifically African-American women, Latinos, Muslim Americans, and gays and lesbians. [ Towleroad ] Read [...]

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Outrage: An Interview with Director Kirby Dick

OIA Staff — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:42:39 +0000

By: Adam Lippe Along with allowing us to see his documentary Outrage, about outing closeted gay politicians who vote against their own interests (I’ve reviewed the movie here), director Kirby Dick was kind enough to go on a press tour. There were 4 reporters in the room, 3 if you don’t count me. Since I [...]

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This Week in HIV/AIDS News

OIA Staff — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:04:33 +0000

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Debunking The Religious Freedoms Vermont’s Gay Marriage Won’t Take Away

OIA Staff — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:42:04 +0000

Groups like the National Organization for Marriage and Yes On 8 have nearly perfected the ability to disseminate half-truths and blatant lies about what legalizing same-sex marriage entails. Despite their YouTube videos, marriage equality legislation does not hamper religious freedoms. For example, churches will not lose their tax exempt status for refusing to let a [...]

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