Maggie Gallagher’s Next Gig: Gay Marriage Victims Support Network
Maggie Gallagher, the co-founder of NOM, the anti-gay legal boundaries-pushing National Organization For Marriage, who stepped down yesterday as Chairman of the Board, today has announced her new gig — working with NOM on their new project, the Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance (MarriageADA), a support network for people who feel they have been threatened or made to live in fear because of same-sex marriage, marriage equality advocates, or the concept of gay marriage itself. The new organization “is dedicated to one, simple, and profound idea: No American should be afraid to exercise core civil rights: to speak, to donate, to organize, to sign petitions, or to vote for marriage as the union of husband and wife.”
In other words, NOM has decided that there’s money to be made in creating a false sense of anti-straight harassment, and there are people who are bigots and haters but would like someone to redefine those words. Kind of like what NOM claims gays have done to marriage. There’s never not an ironic moment when dealing with NOM.
Yes, gay-haters and bigots, you have “core civil rights: to speak, to donate, to organize, to sign petitions, or to vote for marriage as the union of husband and wife.” But you also have a core civil responsibility to follow the words of the Declaration of Independence, “all men are created equal.”
The Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance says,
If you have been threatened, harassed, or made to feel afraid because you believe in the great, foundational truth of Genesis –we are born male and female and called to come together in love to give children mothers and fathers—Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance is here to help you: you are not alone.
We want to hear your story, connect you with others who share your deepest beliefs, with legal and other practical help, and with other Americans of good will,  who  (regardless of their views on marriage) want to put a stop to the shaming and the fearmongering of our fellow citizens.
The goal of the Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance is to create a supportive community for those who have been threatened for standing for marriage, to nip the climate of fear being created in the bud, to expose for fair-minded Americans on both sides of the  debate the threats being made, to conduct high-quality qualitative and quantitative research documenting the extent of the harm, to develop legislative and community proposal to protect Americans right to engage in the core civil rights: to organize, to vote, to speak, to donate, and to write for marriage.
Isolated and alone, we can be suppressed and intimidated.  Together we are too many to be treated as second-class citizens.
For Gallagher and NOM to claim gays are violating their civil rights is about as offensive and ironic as you can get. The new site also notes,
Since Prop  8, we have grown concerned about the increasing number of reports from people whose persons, property, and/or livelihoods have been threatened because they oppose-same sex marriage.
These incidents, we have come to suspect, are not neither isolated, nor mere thuggery, but are the fruit of a very bad idea relentlessly promoted by gay marriage elites: there is no reason why marriage is the union of husband and wife, opposition to same-sex marriage is just like opposition to interracial marriage, and that “anti-equality†views are therefore the moral, legal, intellectual  equivalent of the hateful dogmas of racism.
The sheer and utter inanity, the very concept that the people most vocal about depriving gay men and lesbians, and bisexual and transgender Americans their civil rights, are being denied the right to continue their attacks, is unconscionable.
NOM President Brian Brown writes in his weekly fundraising email, “You and I know that advocates of gay marriage are seeking to create an America in which good, decent, loving, law-abiding people are afraid to speak up for marriage as the union of husband and wife.
“It’s intellectually and morally absurd, but our opponents have sought to silence debate, and to strip Americans of our core civil rights to speak, to donate, to organize and to vote to protect marriage as the union of one man and one woman.”
“Intellectually and morally absurd” sums up their new endeavor beautifully.
Sofia Resnick at The American Independent writes today, “MarriageADA is an extension of NOM’s never-ending battle to keep its donors secret.”
Like I said, NOM has decided there’s money to be made, and they’re not above doing whatever it takes to plump up their wallets.
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