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News anchor, anti-abortion activist to be the ‘face’ of Minnesota anti-gay marriage amendment

By | 01.09.12 | 7:00 am

Kalley King Yanta, a former anchor for a Minneapolis-based television station and an anti-abortion-rights activist, has joined the Minnesota for Marriage group to anchor videos intended to convince Minnesotans to vote for the anti-gay-marriage amendment on the ballot in 2012. The videos — and Yanta — have come under More…

Gingrich, like Romney, promises to exclude gay couples from marriage if president

By | 12.16.11 | 11:43 am

Though it was presidential candidate Mitt Romney who hardened his stance opposing same-sex marriage during Thursday night’s GOP presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa, it was his strongest rival, Newt Gingrich, who demonstrated his commitment to excluding same-sex couples from marriage by signing the National Organization More…

NOM asks for money to cover ‘looming shortfall’

By | 12.14.11 | 12:20 pm

One day after The American Independent released an analysis of the National Organization for Marriage’s recently reported finances from 2010, which reveal that last year the organization spent more than $1 million than it earned, NOM President Brian Brown emailed supporters asking for help covering what he terms a More…

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…

Washington state to consider same-sex marriage in 2012

By | 11.11.11 | 12:54 pm

A day after the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) lauded Basic Rights Oregon’s decision not to push for a marriage-equality bill next year, news comes that Oregon’s northern neighbor Washington will attempt legalizing same-sex marriage in 2012.

N.H. rep. cancels pursuit of amendment to ban marriage equality

By | 11.02.11 | 9:32 am

The New Hampshire state representative sponsoring a bill that would repeal the state’s same-sex marriage law has decided not to pursue a constitutional amendment that would forever ban gay and lesbian couples from marrying, reports the Associated Press.

Maddow accuses NOM of ‘uncredited, anti-gay Photoshopping’

By | 10.26.11 | 2:44 pm

UPDATED Oct. 27, 2:40 p.m. EST: Amended with a correction* and update

UPDATE: The National Organization for Marriage has since removed from its website the image that is the subject of this article.

A photo doctored by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) in a new campaign to overturn More…

NOM trying to appeal to anger over Wall Street to raise money for its N.Y. PAC

By | 10.24.11 | 1:34 pm

In its ongoing fundraising campaign targeting four Republican New York state senators who jumped party lines to vote in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage this past summer, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is shopping the narrative that the senators were bought by New York City Mayor Michael More…

Maryland delegate, church leaders plan fundraising against marriage-equality bill

By | 10.21.11 | 2:26 pm

Photo: FreeFoto.comUPDATED Nov. 3, 2011 with a correction*

Plans to draw money and support from Maryland’s African-American churchgoers to fight next year’s marriage-equality legislation have moved forward, but fundraising particulars have not yet been sorted out, the top leaders of a group organizing the mobilization recently told The American Independent.

Oregon group considers using ballot to legalize same-sex marriage

By | 10.17.11 | 12:06 pm

As more states consider amending their constitutions next year to prohibit gay men and lesbians from marrying, one state, Oregon, is considering the opposite tactic — overturning a constitutional gay-marriage ban.