Anti-gay group to fight marriage efforts in D.C.

Source: Washington Blade

In a little noticed development, a national organization credited with playing a lead role in persuading California voters to ban same-sex marriage through Proposition 8 moved its headquarters last month to Washington, D.C.

The National Organization for Marriage plans to use its projected 2009 budget of $6 million to, among other things, help ban same-sex marriage in the District of Columbia and prevent President Barack Obama and a Democratic-controlled Congress from repealing the Defense of Marriage Act, according to Brian Brown, the group’s executive director.

“The fight over Proposition 8, as far as the ballot initiative, is over. We won,” Brown told the Blade in a telephone interview. “So right now I think both sides agree that the real focus is on what’s happening in the Northeast.”

... NOM’s critics, meanwhile, have complained that the group has yet to release information about its finances. Fred Karger, founder of the West Coast group, Californians Against Hate, sent a letter to the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Elections Practices, which monitors election campaigns, alleging that NOM might be “laundering” money from anonymous Mormon donors to the referendum campaign seeking to overturn Maine’s same-sex marriage law.

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these jerks during their office hours. Code Pink rented a house in DC and helped sponsor some of us to go lobby Congress. We should do something like that with these people.

They're essentially trolls. :)

...isn't that what was meant by "put our pennies together and pay people to protest"?

hate is such a hard ball to bounce higher and higher each day - even for the most hate-mongering righties. Lookie Tom Delay - he's dancing light in the loafers now and no one is batting a (long) eyelash.

and I don't need these sickos coming here to defend MY marriage.

...this article has me thinking of cats and cheeseburgers.

:shrug:

Wow! You learn something every day!