Poor Brian Brown. It has not been a good week for him and his Mormon front group, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM).
With two more states (Maine and Iowa) considering investigations of his organization for improper reporting of campaign contributions and money laundering, plus the on-going ten month investigation by the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC Case #08-735), Brian went on the offensive on Friday and sent out the email below to all his supporters and the media.
The [Washington] Post recently featured a story by reporter Monica Hesse that ran on the front of the Style section while she was on vacation. The day before returning, she logged on to check e-mails — and wept.
She was buried by an avalanche of messages angrily attacking her lengthy Aug. 28 profile of Brian Brown, executive director of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the group leading the fight against legalization of same-sex marriage.
Hesse was stunned. She had expected to hear from anti-gay-marriage conservatives who might view the story as “snide.”
Instead, she heard from liberals who support gay marriage, accusing her of writing a puff piece about someone they believe fosters prejudice and intolerance. The story was shallow and one-sided, they complained.
Scores also contacted the ombudsman. It’s “one of the biggest pieces of crap The Post has published in recent memory,” wrote District resident William Grant II. “What’s next, a piece on how a KKK leader is just ’someone next door’ and ‘really a nice person’?” …
Much more at the link, including quotes from our friend Fred Karger.
Oh, and Hesse is bisexual. And she still doesn’t get it.
Keep weeping, Monica, until you do.
You have no quarter here.
Harsh? Tough. I’m tired of this. Tired of capitulaters. Tired of apologists. Tired of morons-in-denial — from “gay” Republicans to spineless Democrats — who think if we just “reach out” and make nice, the haters will be nice back.
“Reaching out” gets you one thing: your hand lopped off at the wrist.
AUGUSTA, ME — September 1, 2009 — Jonathan Wayne, Executive Director of State of Maine Commission of Governmental Ethics and Elections Practices, sent a strongly worded four page letter to Stand for Marriage Maine PAC (SFMMP) and the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), seeking more information on the charges of “money laundering” against them in their campaign to repeal Maine’s same-sex marriage law.
The letter sent to Joseph Keaney, Stand for Marriage Maine PAC’s Treasurer and Brian Brown, NOM’s Executive Director, called upon both organizations to respond in writing by September 17, 2009 “…concerning whether the Commission should conduct an investigation.”
AUGUSTA, Maine — August 26, 2009 — Fred Karger, founder of Californians Against Hate, an LGBT watchdog group, sent a letter detailing alleged election law violations by Stand for Marriage Maine to the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices. The request for an immediate investigation was sent yesterday to the Jonathan Wayne, the Commission’s Executive Director and a copy to attorney General Janet Mills.
The nine page complaint (below) and fourteen attachments spell out how the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, Knights of Columbus of Washington, DC and James Dobson’s Focus on the Family had contributors give the money to their organizations, and then they in turn gave the money to the Stand for Marriage Maine in order to hide the identity of the donors.
Letter Sent to Maine Election Officials Warning of Money Laundering by National Organization for Marriage (NOM) & Others
LOS ANGELES, CA / AUGUSTA, ME — August 13, 2009 — 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 to repeal LD 1020 — the law passed by the Legislature and signed by the Governor allowing same-sex marriage in Maine.
Of the $343,689.50 raised to pay the Brighton, Michigan-based National Petition Management, Inc. to collect the signatures, only $400, or a mere .001 of that total came from individuals. The remaining $343,289.50 was given by various religious organizations and James Dobson’s Focus on the Family. The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) gave nearly half of that total, $160,000. The remainder came from Catholic organizations ($150,000) and James Dobson’s Focus on the Family ($31,000).
“It sure looks like they are trying to hide the donors in their latest effort to strip away marriage equality,” said Fred Karger. “There is no way these organizations like NOM and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland had all this money sitting in their treasuries (except for possibly Focus on the Family). They went out and raised it expressly for this campaign. It’s very expensive to hire these signature gathering firms to collect 100,000 signatures in a short period of time.”
…has reversed its decision to sponsor a Rhode Island rally held by a U.S. group that opposes same-sex marriage, after encountering fierce criticism for the move.
The August 16 event, organized by the National Organization for Marriage, is billed as a “Celebrate Marriage & Family Day.” Held in suburban Providence, the rally is to include speeches, a cookout and a ceremony in which married couples are invited to renew their vows. …
In a flyer for the event, Tim Hortons was listed as a sponsor, and was promptly criticized. …
“No matter what Daddy says about the Demoncrats and Anti-Christ Obama, please, God, grant us single-payer, or at least a decent public option, because I’m going to need therapy for the rest of my life!”
So much for having “reason to mention Rick Santorum when he’s not ragging on Those Horrible Homos.”
And forget Maggie “Let Mama Love Baby-Hubby” Gallagher’s booga-booga scarefest, “The Gathering Storm” — now it’s “The Gathering Grassfire” (and we can’t wait to see the parody videos!):
Miss California USA Carrie Prejean fired a slew of nasty, contentious emails to the folks who run Miss CA USA before she got the ax.
For example, on May 29, Carrie wrote: “You do not cooperate with me, and you pick and chose [sic] the the [sic] things YOU want me to do. That is not happening anymore. Stop speaking for me. I have MY own voice.” …
There are other emails as well, in which “biblically correct” Carrie made it clear she had contempt for pageant officials and planned to do what she wants to do. …
To our nearly-equal satisfaction, The Donald ends up looking like a schmuck (toldja, Donald, toldja):
Donald Trump just told TMZ he gave the green light to fire “biblically correct” Carrie Prejean’s award-winning butt because she just wouldn’t do the job and treated people badly. …
Trump said: “To me she was the sweetest thing. Everyone else — she treated like s**t.”
But we think we like this missive most of all (we’ll tell you why after you read it):
Former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean’s lawyer says he definitely didn’t see this coming.
Attorney Charles LiMandri tells us, “This is a shock to me. I have emails tied to the Trump organization as recently as 2 days ago, citing future appearance requests.” …
So, why does this make us smirk so much?
Because Charles LiMandri is the high-profile — and vitriolic — anti-gay activist who also serves as general counsel for Maggie Gallagher’s National Organization for Marriage, and who has the astounding audacity to complain about the already-in-place campaign disclosure law that made his pro-Proposition 8 donations — a total of $37,000 in favor of H8 — public.
And then he represented those whiny, bigoted San Diego firefighters, and— well, just go get the rundown in Limandri’s Base8 record.
Bottom line: Anything that pisses off Chuck Limandri makes us happy. Very happy.
Not that that diminishes our joy in seeing instant karma in action where Little Miss Opposite Marriage is concerned. We are full of joy. Overjoyed.
Oh! And congratulations to Tami Farrell, the new Miss California!
“You can practically smell the flop sweat on NOM at this point. They cannot argue their position on merit, so they use children as propoganda tools. With traditional values like that, who needs them to protect the children.”
Any member of the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage, or NOM; commonly used to describe anti-gay marriage trolls who may or may not be members of NOM, but who infiltrate pro-equality message boards and blogs in order to propagate NOM talking points.
“Geez, the NOMbies have really taken over Queerty’s comments section today!”
From the Daily Princetonian, which includes a lively, fun video of imitation NOMbies* wearing Robert George masks and dancing about with umbrellas to protect themselves from the [imagine ominous thuderclap here] “Gathering Storm“:
If this could learn to parrot anti-gay talking points, it too could be Miss California.
As new (and more revealing) nude photos of “Biblically correct” Miss California Carrie Prejean hit the Web this morning (link after the jump), Donald Trump let Prejean keep her Miss California crown. In short, Trump called her “modeling” pictures “beautiful” and “lovely” (twice, mind you), and, anyway — get this — “we’re in the 21st century.”
Funny, but nobody complained when Vanessa Williams was stripped of her Miss America crown. Why not? We say: Reagan + Racism + Homophobia.
TheDirty.com has the second of six promised nudie pics up; it’s much like the first one, only Miss Soon-to-Be-Ex-California is showing us her other side of her surgically-enhanced boobage, and she’s not smiling. KansasCity.com has the two pics side by side for comparison (and just as asinine, but slightly more articulate comments from many homophobic & other holier-than-thou idiots).
So, why is Little Miss Jugs for Jesus a bona fide Anti-Gay? Looks like TMZ has come up with the most plausible answer: Because her parents’ bitter divorce battle had Mr. & Mrs. Prejean screaming accusations of being gay…
They’re not happy about it, of course, and there will always be that core stubbornly stuck in LaLaLand, but we’re seeing more of them come around, and admit they’re losing the war.
From Hot Air — the most aptly-named right-wing blog on the Intertubes, which surprised me to no end with this piece that is essentially rational (albeit shrouded in the ever-present veil of imagined persecution):
“DOMA makes sure that four judges based in Boston or San Francisco cannot impose gay marriage on the rest of us.”
How, exactly, does one “impose gay marriage” on anyone who doesn’t want to participate in it? Did I miss some detail in the Secret Gay Mafia Overturn-DoMA Plan that would require heterosexuals to gay-marry one another, or far worse, gay-marry one of us?
That little gem of a quote is but one of many in Ex-Senator Man-On-Dog’s sickening, hateful, lie-riddled* — but hilarious — letter, which Pam has reprinted in full. You’ve got to read it to believe it. So read it:
And don’t drink anything, because you might choke to death laughing.
Oh, and Ricky? Your “views of marriage” are “just old-fashioned bigotry” and “outdated hatred.”
* He even bullet-points the thoroughly-debunked lie about Catholic Charities (See Big Lie #3), among other half-truths, quarter-truths, and outright lies.
Meanwhile in New Hampshire, the House Judiciary Committee on May 5 approved amendments to the marriage equality bill that the State Senate last week added to the legislation the House passed in March. House action on the Senate version is expected on May 6. As in Maine, New Hampshire’s Democratic governor, John Lynch, has not stated definitively how he will act on the bill. …
SAN DIEGO, May 5 /PRNewswire/ — “On April 19, I chose to answer a question during the 2009 Miss USA pageant in an honest and personal manner that expressed my views of the long-established definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman. That answer, and my commitment to stand by my beliefs, has since resulted in attacks on me and my integrity as a woman. We live in a great country; a nation that was built on freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Yet my comments defending traditional marriage have led to intimidation tactics that seek to undermine my reputation and somehow silence me and my beliefs, as if opinion is only a one-way street.
Intimidation tactics? What intimidation tactics? According to your own words you’ve only had positive feedback since the pageant. Or are you confusing yourself with Miley Cyrus, who has been targeted by One Millions Moms (one of those “pro-family” groups) for having the audacity to opine that gays aren’t evil scum who deserve no rights at all?
…and so we don’t. And neither is the source of the cropped photo at left. But, seeing as how we’re stuck in the United States of Puritania — and since we believe in sending traffic where credit is due — we’ll show you only this much, and invite you to visit the source to see the rest:
Just some random thinking on this slow Sunday evening…
You know, if I ever saw a Google Adsense ad from the National Organization for Marriage (nationformarriage.org) on a Web site, especially one featuring a video of their new incoherent spokesmoron, I’d click the ad. Not a whole bunch of times, but just once. And then I’d let all my friends know about the ad, so they could click it too.
I mean, if NOM is paying out good money for every single click on their ads, they must have something really important to say, no? And we really should see what it’s all about.
Really, we should. I would.
I’d never click on an ad on my own Web site (that’s against the rules), but if I ever saw a live NOM ad on any other good-guy site, I’d click it right away and see what NOM had to tell me that was so important, NOM is paying the Webmaster for every single click on their ad.
Yes indeedy, if I ever see one of those ads, I’m going to click it, and see what they have to say.
It must be important, since NOM is paying out good money for every single click on their ads, and since it’s obvious they’re so anxious to get their message out, they’re even willing to pay gay Webmasters for the privilege of showing their ads on gay Web sites.
So we should listen to what they have to say, don’t you think?
More on Little Miss “I’m Not a Homer— Homofolio— Anti-Gay! And Teh Bad Geyhz Are Perco— Persemacut— Being Mean to Me! Waaaaaaah!” California later (I’ve got a business to salvage on this end, thus the sporadic posts), but for now, get a load (llllllllliterally) of this:
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So sayeth TMZ — and they haven’t been wrong yet:
