NOM, the National Organization For Marriage, has never, ever been good at examining anything in depth. Take their arguments against marriage equality. Blame Maggie Gallagher for this — all one has to do is listen to how vociferously Maggie believes in her own bigotry and you’ll understand the entire organization’s inability to understand context, just for starters.
So it should come as no surprise what so ever that the famously shallow and yet dense folks who run the NOM Blog and their sister site, the Ruth Institute’s blog — which a few months ago published a portion of an opinion piece titled, “You Whiny Sniveling Little Atheists Are Pathetic!,” only to have to pull it days later because it (hopefully) offended even their own stupidity — NOM’s anonymous staff have now posted a surprisingly slanted and ignorant — not to mention, false — piece from our friends across the Pond, titled, “Gay marriage is now the issue through which the elite advertises its superiority over the redneck masses.”
And — surprise! — its author is the editor of a little online site that used to be the journal of the Revolutionary Communist Party.
Yes, NOM, whose mantra is “to protect marriage and the faith communities that sustain it,” sees no issue with advertising an opinion piece by a journalist, Brendan O’Neill, who is the editor of Spiked, which used to be called Living Marxism, the journal of the Revolutionary Communist Party — which is no longer in existence only because it had to close after being sued for libel.
NOM sure does know how to pick them, don’t they?
O’Neill has been described as “an alumnus of some Trotskyist group or other, and like other leftie turned righties (or Euston Manifesto Decent Lefties), has remembered how to use his time honoured bag of rhetorical tricks.”
Also, “I don’t suspect many people will be taking lessons from Brendan O’Neill – editor at Spiked Online – on journalism ethics,” was written about him last year regarding a U.K. press freedoms issue.
The defining sentence of “Gay marriage is now the issue through which the elite advertises its superiority over the redneck masses,” is:
“Supporting gay marriage has become a kind of shorthand way of indicating one’s superiority over the hordes, particularly those of a ;religious ;or redneck persuasion.”
And to be clear, O’Neill’s interpretation of the push for same-sex marriage on either side of the sea is flat-out false.
Wikipedia’s short bio of O’Neill, to be fair, labels him as having become more of a libertarian, but describes as pretty much the same his views on racism as his piece about same-sex marriage. It notes O’Neill “considers efforts to combat racism in football to be ‘a class war’ driven by ‘elites’ utter incomprehension of the mass passions that get aired at football matches.’ Referring to high profile cases of racial abuse and alleged racial abuse, he argued that ‘these incidents and alleged incidents are not racism at all, in the true meaning of the word’ due to the levels of passion involved, describing anti-racism efforts as ‘a pretty poisonous desire to police the…working classes’.”