Nat'l Org. for Marriage in debt as donations drop

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Anti-Gay National Organization For Marriage Is Seriously In Debt

ByCaitlin MacNealPublishedNovember 19, 2014, 5:37 PM EST



The National Organization for Marriage, a group vehemently opposed to same-sex marriage, has fallen into incredible debt.

The group ended 2013 with $2.5 million in debt, according to an analysis of its 2013 tax return by the Human Rights Campaign.

An between 2012 and 2013, NOM saw a staggering 50 percent drop in donations. The group raised $5.1 million in 2013, and two donors accounted for more than half the money raised by the group, according to HRC.

The National Organization for Marriage spends its time and money fighting same-sex marriage and attacking openly gay Republican candidates.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/national-organization-marriage-debt

Well, let me break out my violin of sympathy.







And I see that two rich, homophobic assholes gave a total of $2½ million bucks to them. Wow, the grassroots activism is overwhelming...

[Renew Deal]

1. Hopefully they go under

Because they are not about "marriage"

[Orsino]

2. How many are they laying off?

What will the poor wingnut executives do when the welfare dries up completely?

Thanks, Obama, for killing jobs!

[theHandpuppet]

3. Follow the money

from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC)

NOM EXPOSED

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NOM Closely Aligned With Mormon Church in California and Through Board Members

NOM’s mission and organizational secrecy fits with a pattern of behavior by the Mormon Church, which has been trying to influence policy related to same-sex marriage since the mid-90s while keeping its name not only out of headlines, but entirely out of campaign finance reports. Additionally, one of NOM’s founding board members has close ties to the Mormon Church’s leadership and was replaced by well-known Mormon writer and anti-equality columnist Orson Scott Card. Maggie Gallagher also sits on the board of the Marriage Law Foundation, which is Mormon-founded and Utah-based. And one of the academic advisors to the Ruth Institute (now a NOM project) has been deeply involved with the Church’s opposition strategy to same-sex marriage from its earliest days.

NOM’s Largest Known Donation is From a Catholic Group and has Ties to Powerful and Secretive Opus Dei

Another cornerstone of NOM’s emergence was the Catholic Church. The three main founders of NOM – Brian Brown, Maggie Gallagher, and Robert George – are all Roman Catholic, and have been comparatively open about the fact that the group is backed by “well-off Catholic individuals.” A September 2010 Washington Independent article identified the largest known donation to NOM as a $1.4 million bundle from the Catholic fraternal organizations Knights of Columbus in 2009. The prior year, the Knights gave $500,000 to NOM. Another board member, Luis Tellez, is a high-ranking official in the American branch of the ultra-conservative and secretive Catholic anti-gay organization Opus Dei.

NOM Received From Right-Wing Evangelical Groups and the Bradley Foundation

NOM has acknowledged that it has received funding from evangelical right-wing anti-gay organizations Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council. NOM board chairman emeritus Robert George, who served on FRC’s board, also has ties to groups like the Bradley Foundation. Moreover, NOM has connections to the Arlington Group, a collection of 75 religious right groups that poured $2 million into passing gay marriage bans in states during the 2004 presidential election.

The Mysterious Five Donors

NOM’s 2009 990 tax return showed it to be a a sham "grassroots" organization. On Monday, January 3, 2011, HRC went to the Washington, D.C., NOM office and asked for a copy of its 2009 990 for both its (c) 3 and (c) 4 organizations, which had not been made public at the time. The following day, HRC went back to the office and obtained a hard-copy of the (c) 4 990. It appears NOM did not provide us with a complete return....

MORE at http://www.hrc.org/nomexposed/section/follow-the-money

[krispos42]

4. Surprise, surprise.

And of course, the donors are tax-exempt, right?

[hifiguy]

5. Bwahahahahah!!!

Someone throw these fuckers an anchor and get it over with.