NOM, the National Organization For Marriage, is now endorsing a few Democrats in races where gay Republicans are running. One Democrat issued a spectacular smackdown.
NOM would rather America vote for straight pro-LGBT people than gay pro-LGBT people, so in a rare endorsement, the anti-gay “faith” group tried to throw their weight behind Massachusetts Democrat Seth Moulton.
Moulton is running for a seat in the U.S. Congress against gay Republican Richard Tisei.
And here’s NOM’s reasoning.
“Tisei’s opponent, Seth Moulton, is no better than Tisei on the issues,” NOM writes in a fundraising email. “But as a Democrat in a House controlled by Republicans, Moulton wouldn’t be able to impact anything. Furthermore, we could defeat him in two years. Tisei, however, as a Republican within a Republican-controlled House of Representatives, would be in a position to do great damage to the integrity of the party’s platform and the pro-life and pro-family policies for which the party stands!”
A vote for Moulton would have little impact on the critical issues of marriage and life, either for the state of Massachusetts or for the nation. But a vote for Tisei would, in a very real way, “change the face and voice of America’s politics”—precisely by silencing our voice, yours and mine, where the message of marriage and life needs most to be heard!
They’re urging supporters to “Please share this information today with everyone you know in Massachusetts and urge them to oppose Tisei’s election, even if that means voting for his Democratic challenger.”
So what did Moulton do?
“Asked whether Moulton would welcome or reject votes cast in his favor by NOM supporters, a spokesperson for Moulton responded, ‘Reject,'” reports MetroWeekly’s Justin Snow.
“Seth Moulton fundamentally disagrees with everything NOM stands for and has long said that equality is the civil rights fight of our generation,†said Carrie Rankin, Moulton’s communications director. “Fighting against groups, like NOM, that deny equality as a basic human right will be a priority of Seth’s in Congress.†Rankin noted that Moulton has a gay brother and Moulton has said, “It’s fundamentally wrong that he and I don’t share the same rights just because of who he is.â€
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