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NOM's Hypocrisy on Civility



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The National Organization for Marriage has found time between its campaigns to enshrine anti-gay discrimination in state constitutions to join a Religious Right attack on gay activist and author Dan Savage, who has forthrightly apologized (link is external)for comments he made when some students walked out of a speech he gave at a high school.  Earlier this week, NOM blogger and “culture director” Thomas Peters, speaking about the incident on a Seattle radio show, (link is external) said NOM wants to debate issues like marriage with civility and respect.  When the interviewer told Peters he has heard vitriolic and denigrating language about gay people from religious leaders opposed to marriage equality, Peters said that “when people on our side have said something like that, NOM is always very careful to distance ourselves from those sort of comments, to say, ‘that’s not us, that’s not our movement.’”

Really? Is that why NOM promoted (link is external)Rev. Patrick Wooden as a spokesman for the anti-gay amendment that voters in North Carolina just passed?  As RWW has reported(link is external), Wooden has called anti-LGBT violence “normal(link is external)” and encouraged parents to beat their transgender child(link is external), blamed Oprah, Tyler Perry and the cast of Glee (link is external)for promoting “wicked” and “perverse” causes, said that Chaz Bono is controlled by demons(link is external) and claimed homosexuality is a “wicked, deviant, immoral, self-destructive, anti-human sexual behavior(link is external)."

We have also color:black;background:white">reported(link is external) that NOM also promoted Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, who Brian notes has said that gay rights is “Satan’s plan(link is external)” and “Satan’s point of attack on the United States(link is external),” claimed “Oprah [Winfrey] will have to answer to her Creator(link is external)” for “promoting” homosexuality, wondered if gay TSA agents were deliberately groping passengers(link is external), attacked the US for trying “to lecture the Ugandans about homosexuality(link is external)” by opposing their “kill the gays” bill, and agreed with Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern that homosexuality is more dangerous than terrorism(link is external) and the greatest threat to America(link is external).

Faced with this vitriolic and denigrating language, NOM's response has not been to say, “that’s not us, that’s not our movement” -- it has been to promote the vitriol-spewers as spokespersons for their movement.  So it’s hard to take too seriously anything NOM says about civil debate.