NOM: Most Young People Are Promiscuous, Secular, Uneducated

Does NOM, the National Organization For Marriage, think young Americans are promiscuous, uneducated, and un-self aware? NOM’s Ruth Institute just released a new video that totally offends — or should — young heterosexuals, in addition to NOM’s usual audience of choice when it comes to offending — homosexuals, and bisexual and transgender Americans. “I Commit,” NOM’s new video, portrays “young heterosexual leaders” as the ones who are choosing to love someone (of the opposite gender) and who “commit to lifelong married love.” Because Maggie Gallagher’s NOM apparently believes that young people are nothing more than over-sexed sluts.

“Most young people are just drifting in the cultural soup of casual sex,” says NOM’s President of their Ruth Institute, Jennifer Roback Morse. “But the religiously serious, college educated young adults know what they are about. They are intentionally living a counter-cultural lifestyle. We are here to promote them and support them in any way we can.”

So, in other words, “most young people are uneducated sluts having mindless casual sex, but our people are revolutionaries who want to get married!”

Ignore the fact that a great many in the LGBTQ community want to get married, too. And ignore the fact that NOM continues to falsely portray marriage as an institution unchanged since God put man on Earth 6000 years ago. Now it’s “counter-cultural” to want to get married.

Hardly anyone (Britney Spears, excluded) gets married and thinks, “I don’t want to stay married to this person for the rest of my life!” But Maggie Gallagher’s NOM and their ludicrous tax exempt org the Ruth Institute think they need to “make marriage cool.” (Seriously.) Because there are so many people in this country who think marriage isn’t cool?

The problem, Maggie, Brian, and Jennifer, isn’t that young people think marriage isn’t cool, the problem is that life is hard. The number one reason people get divorced isn’t because they wake up and decide it would be cooler to be single. The number one reason people get divorced is because they have financial difficulties that weaken their relationship. So, your condescending little video just because even more offensive.

NOM’s Ruth Institute is primarily a straw man that allows NOM to claim they actually care about protecting marriage and not just about protecting their pocketbooks, or denying equality to Americans they oppose, namely, gays. Their website, which apparently hasn’t been updated since July, proves their lack of commitment to marriage.

If only the National Organization For Marriage and the Ruth Institute actually wanted to “protect marriage,” they could actually help people learn how to better manage their relationships, instead of spending tens of millions of dollars fighting against people who want to get married too.

The video was profiled by the ultra-right wing site, LifeSite News.

“I love this video,” Ruth Institute President Jennifer Roback Morse told LifeSiteNews.com, explaining that at the heart of the “I Commit” video are “hope, commitment, and a fresh start for the institution of marriage in American society and beyond.”

Even LifeSite finds this ludicrous.

They write,

“As previously reported by LifeSiteNews, there are signs indicating that Generation X married couples prefer monogamy to divorce. A survey by the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project confirmed that the number of divorces has been in steady decline since the rate of divorce peaked in 1980.”

Good job, NOM!