Not All Republicans Are Safe from NOM’s Storm

It looks like Maggie Gallagher, Brian Brown and their illegally run National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is back in California.  Yes, of course they’re talking against marriage equality, but moreover, they’re talking trash about…ready for this…a Republican candidate!  Why?  Only one real reason of course…that Republican believes that LGBT tax-paying Americans should have the same rights as all “straight” Americans.

So, since Tom Campbell, a Republican, has stood in support of LGBT equality, he’s managed to place his face on NOM’s target.  Below, the shots they take at Campbell.  Will it be a bulls-eye or a miss?

Withers: NOM Has Gay Support

I found a great post by James Withers at 365Gay.com about Maggie Gallagher’s claim that “out” gays and lesbians actually work for her anti-gay organization, the National Organization for Marriage.

According to the post:

Remember a few weeks back when Maggie Gallagher, president of the National Organization for Marriage, and blogger Andrew Sullivan went toe to toe at a Cato Institute seminar? The organization’s president said out gays and lesbians worked for it. She declined to name names at the time, but we thought it would be a great story/interview. Gays and lesbians working for NOM, an organization fighting hard against gay marriage? Who wouldn’t want to write about that? After some emails and a phone call to NOM’s press person, who was polite and professional, Gallagher “declined to comment.”

More at: 365Gay.com!

Are You Even Married, Maggie?

No one has ever seen your husband. You attend countless marriage events, chock full of married couples, celebrating marriage, yet you always, always show up alone.

I had the displeasure of attending your recent presentation at the CATO Institute in Washington, D.C. I was amazed to see that you don’t wear a wedding ring. No rings on any fingers. Where is your alleged husband? Why no ring??

Just last year, NOM proudly said it spent over $8 million in a dozen states in your recently released “Investor’s Report.”

That doesn’t even include the millions more in attorney’s fees and money raised through your 501©3 charitable fund.

You fight people’s happiness at the ballot box, state legislatures and through too many law suits to count.

Recently, NOM has lead the effort to undo the Washington, D.C., law through every means possible, including going to Congress, the courts, all the way up to the United States Supreme Court. Brian Brown’s angry email from Friday states, “Don’t believe the lies. It’s not over in D.C. by any means.”

More of this open letter from Fred Karger to Maggie Gallagher at: SDGLN!

An Open Letter to Maggie Gallagher

Why are you, all your financial backers and all your high-priced attorneys across the country hell-bent on destroying so many lives and hurting so many people, just as they are about to experience the happiest day of their lives?

What is so wrong with your life, that you make your living attempting to hurt so many others?

You preside over two extremely well funded organizations that portend to “protect marriage.” You speak all over the county at marriage rallies. You are on TV all the time defending what you call the “sanctity of marriage.” You have written books on marriage, one of which is even titled, The Case for Marriage: Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier, and Better-Off Financially, yet NOM’s Executive Director, Brian Brown and you viciously attack anyone who gets in your way.

Are You Even Married, Maggie?

More by Fred Karger at the: Huffington Post!

Wishful Thinking or Thankful Wishing?

Although Maggie Moo Gallagher’s sidekick Brian Brown is not an authority on anything other than concealing campaign funds, lying, distorting facts, and gay bashing, it’s always good to see what comes from the dark side of whatever planet it is the National Organization for Marriage is from.

It looks as though Brown, and perhaps his anti-gay, anti-equality, “Christian” organization are convinced that the Prop 8 trial will end up favoring his bigoted and discriminatory views, and he also appears convinced that a vast majority of Americans consider LGBT Americans as less than human.

Below is a press release from Brown and NOM about the Prop 8 trial that was released today:

The Perry trial is over and the first poll is out: Americans overwhelmingly want the Supreme Court to support marriage. Americans want to uphold the right of Californian voters to amend their own constitution to protect marriage.

By a 2-1 margin, Americans are rooting for Perry and Prop 8! Fifty-eight percent want the Court to uphold marriage, while only 34% want it redefined.

Remember that the next time the media tries to persuade you that you are alone. Remember, your neighbors who favor gay marriage may be noisier and angrier than those who affirm the importance of protecting marriage. But despite Hollywood propaganda, despite Ted Olson and David Boies, despite the mainstream media, despite the alleged “consensus” among intellectuals, the vast majority of Americans are not giving up on truth, common sense–or the American people’s right to vote!

Protecting your right to vote for marriage without fear or favor has become a key part of NOM’s mission.

In D.C. we are up on Capitol Hill asking senators and congressmen to protect the DC residents’ right to vote on marriage.

And we are taking the battle to the courts too. The new Supreme Court decision in Citizens United, which is aimed at ending the right of politicians to control political discourse and action–to rig the political game in one side or another–is giving us all a renewed measure of hope for our other legal cases. In Yes on 8 vs. Bowen, we are joining with Protect Marriage to fight for the rights of California citizens to participate peacefully in the political process without facing a renewed wave of hatred and intimidation. The price of participating in American democracy should not be threats to your livelihood, your property, or your person.

We’ve recently filed another disclosure case, National Organization for Marriage v. McKee, for the same purpose in Maine. (The National Law Journal just noticed us, and you can read about the case below.) We may be filing more legal actions to protect your rights in other states soon. Here’s the bottom line: No American should ever be afraid to exercise the right to speak, to vote, to organize or to donate on behalf of the idea that marriage means a husband and wife.

Together, with your help, we will fight these great battles–and win.

Maggie Gallagher did a column this week on a new abstinence study. It’s worth reading (well, Maggie is always worth reading), but for a special reason. The abstinence debate is a case study in how progressives misuse science for their own purposes–often without even recognizing it.

Here’s the cautionary tale.

Abstinence-only sex education programs began in 1996. The federal government still funds mostly contraceptive-based sex education. (In 2008 we spent four times as much money on contraceptive-based education as on abstinence.) Yet progressives targeted abstinence programs for extinction and their prime weapons were Science and Ridicule. First they began a drumbeat about how these programs had not been proven effective. Of course they had an argument on their side. Most government programs have no proof they work–but somehow this was compelling to progressives only in the one relatively tiny government program promoting teen abstinence.

Eventually Progressives progressed (not just pundits, but even credentialed scientific organizations) into suggesting abstinence programs were not only ineffective, they were doing actual harm. (Yes, they actually suggested telling kids not to have sex harms them–unless you hand them a condom at the same time. I’m not making this up.)

And so, sadly, President Obama succeeded in killing abstinence programs for 2010. When two weeks ago the Guttmacher Institute reported that teen pregnancy was once again on the rise, the press headlines blamed abstinence education. Hanna Rosin of The New Republic called for a federal mandate banning abstinence-only programs across the country.

The next day what happened? A new random-assignment clinical trial published in the prestigious Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine demonstrated that just eight hours of abstinence -only education sharply reduced the proportion of poor, African-American teens who were having sex. The science showed the program works.

Science is slow, sometimes, to catch up with common sense… but in the end the truth comes out–unless the scientific debate is prematurely closed.

We went through this same cycle of credentialed opinion with divorce in the 1970s. The credentialed experts all rushed into to say that Science was on the side of liberal divorce culture. A generation later, the data showing the damage caused by Progressive opinion came in and–to their credit–many of them changed their minds.

A lot of shocking truths came out of the Perry trial. Their expert witness testified that only a third of gay couples believe in monogamy (fidelity)–and that of those who do believe in fidelity almost three-quarters are unfaithful. How do children raised in deliberately motherless families, by two gay men, fare? Shockingly, their expert witness testified: We don’t know. We don’t even have a single study that looks at that question. Why are Progressives so uninterested in the science here?

What we do know is this: Every human civilization throughout history has recognized that unions of husband and wife are special, that the common good and the care of children depends in protecting marriage in a special way. We know that mothers and fathers both matter to children, and that relationships designed from the start to deny this great good to children are not marriages.

In the end truth and love will triumph over lies and hate.

God bless you and keep fighting the good fight!

Faithfully,

Brian S. Brown
Executive Director
National Organization for Marriage
20 Nassau Street, Suite 242
Princeton, NJ 08542

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