National Organization For Marriage Claims Obama Administration ‘Imposing’ Same-Sex Marriage ‘Among Immigrants’
Whatever words might come to mind when most Americans think of the National Organization For Marriage, “smart” probably isn’t one of them. Regardless, it’s hard to decide what part of a fundraising email NOM just sent is worse: the blatantly partisan GOP hackery, the anti-gay discriminatory strategy, the obvious obfuscation and falsification of facts, or the ugly anti-immigrant bigotry.
NOM sends over 100 of these emails annually. In today’s they falsely suggest the rules of the Senate have changed to allow simple majority rule on everything.
“We’re striving for 51,” the email from NOM President Brian Brown reads.
“It used to be that it took 60 votes in the US Senate to accomplish anything, but President Obama and his close ally, Senate Leader Harry Reid, have changed all that. Now the rule of 51 applies, meaning that a simple majority in the Senate can move an agenda.”
Yes, as long as that agenda is a confirmation vote, of, say, a federal judge nominated to a seat by the President. The Senate did go “nuclear,” and changed the rules to require only a simple majority of 51 to confirm all executive branch nominees, including judicial nominees — but not even including Supreme Court judges.
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The simple majority rule does not apply to any other bill. So NOM’s hope of passing a ban on same-sex marriage — which is out-of-the-box unconstitutional anyway, and would never get signed by a Democratic president, and probably not by a Republican one either — is incoherently stupid.
“What would it mean if we had 51 US senators who supported marriage as the union of one man and one woman to go along with the majority of US House members we already have?,” NOM President Brian Brown asks — as he asks for money too.
It means we would be able to move forward legislation such as the Marriage and Religious Freedom Act, which was introduced in the House by Rep. Raul Labrador and is expected to be introduced in the Senate shortly.
And it means that we’d have a fighting chance at advancing Rep. Tim Huelscamp’s proposed Federal Marriage Amendment, which would preserve marriage across the country as the union of one man and one woman and strip courts of their authority to redefine marriage.
If by “moving forward” you mean as pointless as the 46+ votes the House took to repeal Obamacare, then, sure, call it that if you like.
Stupid is one thing we expect from NOM president Brian Brown, and sadly, ugly and nasty is another.
It means we’d be able to stop the Obama Administration from the regulatory power grab they are deploying to ignore federal law and impose same-sex ‘marriage’ wherever they can — in the military, among immigrants, etc. They are even using foreign aid as a tool to advance the homosexual agenda.
Really, Brian? “The homosexual agenda”? Are you so desperate at this point you’re willing to go back to language of the 1950’s?
And really Brian? Obama is “imposing  same-sex ‘marriage’ … among immigrants”? Do tell, how?
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