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National Organization for Marriage’s 2010 financial records raise questions

By | 12.12.11 | 6:00 am

In 2010, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), a tax-exempt nonprofit trying to thwart the legalization of same-sex marriage throughout the U.S., reported the highest individual donations it has received since its inception in 2007, according to NOM’s most recent income disclosures to the Internal Revenue Service, recently obtained More…

N.H. House committee votes to overturn marriage equality

By | 10.26.11 | 11:24 am

The New Hampshire House Judiciary Committee voted Tuesday in favor of repealing the Granite State’s 15-month marriage-equality law, according to the Associated Press.

Professor debates NOM founder on Minnesota marriage amendment

By | 10.14.11 | 2:29 pm | More from The Minnesota Independent

Both sides of the debate over a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage met at the University of St. Thomas Law School on Thursday afternoon.

Former NOM chair Maggie Gallagher heading up new ‘Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance’

By | 09.23.11 | 12:37 pm

The new leadership change at the National Organization for Marriage announced Thursday has provoked curiosity and speculation as to why Maggie Gallagher was swapped out for constitutional lawyer John Eastman to serve as NOM’s board chairman. 

Eastman, of anti-gay group NOM, argued judge was ‘activist’ in impeachment hearings

By | 09.23.11 | 9:38 am | More from The Colorado Independent

Seven years ago, the new head of the National Organization for Marriage, John Eastman, testified at a House impeachment hearing in Denver called by then-first-term-Rep. Greg Brophy. The staunch social conservative lawmaker from Wray, Colo., drew national attention when he targeted Denver Judge John Coughlin as an “activist More…

Firebrand Maggie Gallagher steps down at the National Organization for Marriage

By | 09.22.11 | 5:33 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

Image by: Matt MahurinShe has been a fierce presence in the trenches of national culture wars over the past few years but now Maggie Gallagher, National Organization for Marriage co-founder and chairman of the board, is stepping down. NOM announced Gallagher will be replaced by John Eastman, legal defender of social conservative More…

Minnesota Family Council ramps up campaign for marriage amendment

By | 08.10.11 | 3:40 pm | More from The Minnesota Independent

The Minnesota Family Council has ramped up its efforts this week to pass a constitutional amendment that would define marriage as only between one man and one woman. The group is seeking volunteers to reach out to pastors and has launched a nine-month training program called the Minnesota Worldview Leadership More…

NOM defends possibility for gay-marriage repeal in N.Y. citing delayed repeal in New Hampshire

By | 07.27.11 | 4:19 pm

In recent media appearances, National Organization for Marriage (NOM) board chair Maggie Gallagher has countered the suggestion that NOM might not be able to reverse the recent legalization of gay marriage in New York with two words: New Hampshire.

National Organization for Marriage continues fighting ‘war on marriage’ with hefty cash arsenal

By | 07.25.11 | 11:26 am

Sunday’s inaugural same-sex marriages in New York were met by thousands of protesters blasting the New York Legislature’s passage of the Marriage Equality Act last month. Alongside the profanity-laden chants coming from the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) camp, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) — which condemned the WBC, for More…

How NOM frames its donation solicitation while justifying a promise of secrecy

By | 07.20.11 | 12:34 pm

For the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the battle to restrict marriage to straight couples has often been waged at the same pace as the battle to remain an opaque organization whose funders shall remain anonymous.

NOM’s most recent defeat on this front was in Minnesota, a state where the organization More…