In Secret Documents, Anti-Gay Marriage Group (NOM) Looked To Divide Gays, Blacks

[Duncan Grant]

The leading opponents of same-sex marriage planned to defeat campaigns for gay marriage by "fanning the hostility" between black voters from gay voters and by casting President Obama as a radical foe of marriage, according to confidential documents made public in a Maine court today.

The documents, circulated by the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign, are marked "confidential" and detail the internal strategy of the National Organization for Marriage.

“The strategic goal of this project is to drive a wedge between gays and blacks—two key Democratic constituencies," says an internal report on 2008 and 2009 campaigns, in a section titled the "Not A Civil Right Project."

"Find, equip, energize and connect African American spokespeople for marriage, develop a media campaign around their objections to gay marriage as a civil right; provoke the gay marriage base into responding by denouncing these spokesmen and women as bigots," advises the document, which is a road map to the successful campaign against same-sex marriage in California.

Link to full article here.

[Pab Sungenis]

1. They don't need much help.

The right wing has been trying to drive a wedge between LGBT*.* and people of color for a long time now. They nearly succeeded in the post-Prop-8 explosion. And some here today are continuing that effort.

[yardwork]

2. Thanks, Duncan! I posted this in GD today, where it sank like a stone.

Maybe it will last longer here.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. It's an ongoing ploy, always a tactic of the 'good, decent and moral' faith community's

more open haters. They did the same thing in the 80's. It is the game many preachers play to great profit. They all forget that our community is comprised of all races and religions and national origins.
Prov. 6:14-19, "Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy. These six things the Lord hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that she innocent blood, A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that are swift in running to evil, A false witness who speaks lies, And one who sows discord among brethren."

[Duncan Grant]

4. SPLC: Calling All Black People: NOM Wants to Use You

Calling All Black People: NOM Wants to Use You

Black folks, this is a message for you: The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the country’s preeminent group fighting against same-sex marriage, really, really likes you. They even want to make some of you famous!

Have NOM’s principal leaders, former president Maggie Gallagher and current leader Brian S. Brown, stood up for African Americans before? Well, not so much. But it turns out that they’ve decided that you’re actually very important.

That unexpected revelation came out yesterday, when the pro-LGBT Human Rights Campaign publicized the contents of some previously confidential 2009 documents outlining NOM’s strategies for winning the national battle for “traditional marriage.” (The documents were just unsealed in a Maine court case over NOM’s refusal to identify its donors there, as required by state law.) “The strategic goal of this project,” NOM said, “is to drive a wedge between gays and blacks — two key Democratic constituencies. We aim to find, equip, energize and connect African-American spokespeople for marriage; to develop a media campaign around their objections to gay marriage as a civil right; and to provoke the gay marriage base into responding by denouncing these spokesmen and women as bigots.”

Translation: Let’s get people who support marriage equality to denounce black opponents, making them look like evil racists. Maybe that’ll make people forget that the vast majority of black civil rights leaders support same-sex marriage.

[Duncan Grant]

5. Julian Bond at NAACP criticizes NOM plan for race war

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"NOM's underhanded attempts to divide will not succeed if Black Americans remember their own history of discrimination. Pitting bigotry's victims against other victims is reprehensible; the defenders of justice must stand together."

Julian Bond, Chairman Emeritus, NAACP

[MNBrewer]

6. I'll take Julian Bond and Mrs. King over the boy-raping preachers any day

It's not hard to find a glittery "minister" to condemn homosexuals, is it? They're a dime a dozen, but people who really fought through the black civil rights struggle know better.

[SamG]

7. From Wayne Besen on this topic

This morning, I appeared on MSNBC News with Tho mas Roberts. I was supposed to debate Maggie Gallagher but she did not show up. Her organization, the National Organization for Marriage, is in deep trouble. New documents released by the courts reveal that NOM used cynical strategies and divisive tactics pitting minorities against each other.

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