Anti-Gay Group to Devote At Least $2 Million to Unseat Pro-Marriage NY Lawmakers

[w8liftinglady]

http://www.edgedallas.com/news/national///121517/anti-gay_group_to_devote_at_least_$2_million_to_unseat_pro-marriage_ny_lawmakers

The anti-gay right has adopted the language of victimhood in recent years, claiming that changes in the law to grant sexual minorities the status of equality before the law deprives people of faith of their religious liberties and accusing the GLBT community of "bullying" those who oppose their civil rights efforts.

But when opponents to family parity and other civil rights initiatives are not complaining that they are subject to "intimidation" by gays, they direct plenty of aggression at same-sex families and their supporters. The most recent example: Anti-gay group the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) vowed even before the historic June 24 vote in Albany that brought marriage equality to New York that they would target lawmakers who voted for the marriage equality bill.

Now NOM seems to be launching itself into making good on that threat, announcing that it intends to spend at least $2 million to unseat GOP state legislators who stood up for the state’s gay and lesbian families, according to a June 26 article at Gay Marriage Watch

[dkf]

1. The legislators got their support guaranteed before the vote.

They should be fine.

[rpannier]

2. 2 million bucks down a rat hole

They could just give it all to me and I'll be their coordinator.
I'll create the greatest web page possible for 66.00
And I'll create the most professional fliers they've ever seen for 99.99
The rest of the money will go toward consulting fees, my research trips to Rio, Paris, Tokyo, Sydney and the island of Ireland to visit with "experts" on the topic.

They'll everything for their 2 million dollars -- everything they deserve

[pnwmom]

4. I know someone strongly pro-gay who has already gotten 3 calls.

Hopefully all their money is being wasted like that.

[johnnypneumatic]

3. call them what they are...

NOM, an anti-American, anti-family, pro-child-abuse subversive extremist Christian hate group, a paid propagandist organization of pathological liars, funded by the Catholic Church and the Mormon Church