Rick Santorum Was The Keynote Speaker At NOM’s Gala Last Night And (Almost) No One Knows About It

Have Rick Santorum and the National Organization For Marriage become so irrelevant that a major speech at the nation’s top anti-gay marriage group annual gala goes practically unnoticed?

Time was when a major Republican candidate for president, or a former U.S. Senator, delivered the keynote address at one of the nation’s top anti-gay organizations the media would stand up and take notice. There would be video, photos, national news reports, and a barrage of social media posts from reporters and supports alike.

Rick Santorum Thursday night delivered the keynote address at the National Organization For Marriage‘s annual fundraising gala, and, aside from an MSNBC article, Santorum’s own Facebook post with the above photo, and a handful of tweets, no one knows about it.

Have both Santorum and NOM become so irrelevant the activities of neither garner much attention anymore?

Santorum “criticized the nation’s highest court for ‘redefining what family is,’ and warned the recent decision legalizing marriage equality nationwide would have dire consequences,” Emma Margolin reported in an MSNBC article, “Rick Santorum ‘will not stand’ for marriage equality ruling,” late Thurday night.

“What the Supreme Court did last week was a loss,” Santorum said, according to Margolin. “It’s a loss for America.”

“Co-habitating couples almost never get married,” Santorum said. “Why? Because marriage is not about children anymore. That’s a loss we have to work to try to remedy.”

“In this decision, what we’re seeing is a court … basically saying to anyone who disagrees with it that you’re the equivalent of racists or bigots,” Santorum said.

“If you believe this was tyrannical act of an oligarch judge or judiciary, an affront of fundamental freedom of conscience and you say it’s time to move on, why are you running for president?” Santorum said to big applause. “Not me. This will not stand.”

“I will use the bully pulpit not to do what this president has done – to promote global climate change ideas or trans-fats or whatever else the science of the day is – but to rally the American people around this idea,” Santorum said of strengthening religious freedom and the nuclear family. “That is using power for good.”

Curiously, even NOM did not mention the gala or Santorum on its blog or via social media.

We did manage to find a few tweets, like this one from someone who seems to work for OPUSfidelis, NOM’s marketing agency:

But most of the other tweets were all from reporters, like Margolin, or Ben Jacobs from The Guardian.

Are Santorum and NOM irrelevant?

You decide.