In November of last year, we reported that the vehemently antigay National Organization for Marriage didn’t quite have their financial house in order, and today we learn that their situation has gone from dangerously bad to irreparable. And that is a sign of great things to come.
According to their recently released 2013 tax filings, NOM raised $5.1 million last year, or about half what they raised the previous year. And of the $5.1 million, two donors represent half of the money. Their “Education Fund” responsible for producing all their disgusting antigay propaganda only raised $1.7 million, down 70 percent from the previous year.
NOM finished the year with over $2.5 million in debt.
Slate came up with some compelling reasons for the financial tanking, and they all suggest a positive shift in cultural attitudes towards the LGBT community.
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To summarize:
1. In their increasingly desperate attempts at relevancy, NOM’s rhetoric grew more and more vile. Along the way, supporters dropped like flies.
2. Increased pressure to disclose donors’ identities have made people shy away from giving money. Nobody wants their name associated with something so hateful.
3. The most compelling reason is a loss of interest across the board for their failed cause. We’ve seen hints of the right wing admitting defeat on gay marriage, and it seems that many no longer feel it’s a viable issue to fight.
As Slate aptly puts it, “anyone not totally blinded by bigotry can see pretty clearly that NOM is waging a war against the inevitable.”
We look forward to letting you know when NOM finally collapses like a flan in a cupboard. Something tells us we won’t have to wait long.
Trippy
There is nothing I enjoy more than reading the unhinged rants of Brian Brown, Tony Perkins and the rest of their ilk. (JoeMyGod and GoodAsYou provide daily coverage.) More and more, they are like aging segregationists in Mississippi… talking to their own navels but thinking they have the attention of the entire world.
Two things I would add: First, and implied in the above article, is the almost total absence of the marriage debate on shows like Rush, Hannity, and Beck. Even these guys have moved on, much to the dismay of NOM and the FRC.
Second, NOM has been setting their sites on other countries in search of relevance and funding. Russia (and various African states) is Brown’s new target area. His lifestyle (and salary!) depends on donations. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that Russian oligarchs and African dictators are signing up as donors in the near future.
Large Marge
Suck it Nom like cookie monster does… nom, nom, nom~
1EqualityUSA
Smell the formaldehyde, NOMsters. The aged jars with yellowed patina-marred labels will have your carcasses floating in them for future generations to ogle. Princeton’s Robert P. George, Maggie Gallagher (Her jar is the large one on the end) Brian Brown, Nancy “Wiggle” Elliott of New Hampshire, John weeping (alzheimers?) Boehner, Antonin hater Scalia, Pin-a-gay-kid-down-with-the-help-of-cruel-friends-and-cut-his-hair-off-Romney, John gas-bag McCain, Sarah religulous nut-job Palin, Michelle still blathering Bachmann, friend of Chris” veto” Cristie’s Mark Zuckerberg, Diana-teach-hate-Medley, Pastor electrified-fence-standing ovation-Worley, and the rest, here on Gallagher’s Isle, will be on display for disbelieving future youths.
There’s a fantastic documentary about the woman who created the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall in Washington D.C.(One of many pieces she’s created.) The artist’s name is Maya Ying Lin and she’s so amazingly talented. I wish the queer community could talk her into creating a work of art that would list the names of every bigot who oppressed us. The sun will shine in our yard too and when it does, brilliant artists like Maya Lin will be there to represent the pain endured by our community. I want the names of every politician, every NOM-skull, every Tedious Righter who participated in this American oppression to be clearly legible on this queer memorial. Some day Americans will be shaking their heads in awe, just as we do now over the Japanese internment camps. Every artist needs to devote at least three pieces of work to this message, in whatever medium they work. We must never forget our oppressors.
I am an American citizen with equality on my side, so slander away, bend facts, and play childish tactics. History will see you all for what you are. This will be all a bad memory for us. We’ll be writing it down for others to read. Films will be made quoting some of the lovely gems that have spilled from your very caustic lips. Racism didn’t go away just because the higher court ruled for equality in ‘Loving’ so, no doubt, after the judicial branches rule on the constituionality of this atrocity, your lying lips won’t go away either. We all pay taxes. We are all citizens of the United States, not guests that don’t know when to leave.
RIGay
But like any hard turd, you know just as we think they slipped under the surface for good, the pop up again somewhere else. I am just waiting for some right wing think tank to tap them as cultural experts to lobby again Obamacare and immigration reform.
There are certainly vast and deep pockets to fund and fuel hatred in the country; the focus is just elsewhere at the moment.
All in the name of greed.
1EqualityUSA
right wing and the word, “think” is incongruous.
Cam
So NOM is collapsing, and after all the anti-gay activities of the Duggar family TLC is getting petitions signed by thousands of people telling them to cancel 19 kids and counting.
Being horribly big-otted is getting expensive.
ppp111
@Trippy:
These antigay bigots are doing much better in Third World countries like Africa, especially Uganda. If they can’t spread their vile here, they’re more than happy to infect those countries. While I know there are Christian missionaries in the Phiippinnes, I haven’t heard too much about their antigay crusades there, at least not one significant incident talked about on news websites. I pray the people there have got common sense to know these American idiots are only using them.
Leonard Woodrow
I wish them every failure in their efforts, the ignorant bigots. They have done more harm to marriage than gays can ever do.
MarionPaige
There are now public organized anti-gay groups in America and the gay community is suppose to take comfort in the fact that one of those groups is not that great at managing it’s finances?
The flow of money to anti-gay marriages groups has probably slowed as much as the flow of money to pro-gay marriage groups. Like, how much money is flowing to Freedom to Marry New York now that New York has legalized gay marriage?
The fact that gay marriage bans are being struck down by courts hardly counts as A VICTORY when nobody is gay marrying (and when the means by which gay marriage has been obtained has “poisoned the well” against gay people). Doesn’t the fact that no one is gay marrying count as a defeat to some extent? Why are gay people not marrying when all of this time and money has been spent on the theory that there was this flood of gay people eager to marry?
There is a war going on against gay people that was sparked by gay fucking marriage but, now, that war is bigger than that one issue. This is something the gay fucking marriage fucktards either don’t realize or they simply don’t care about. They don’t care if the patient dies, they just want to brag that the operation was a success.
rickhfx
Why does religion and religious people get a free pass on hate by so many people? They sure don’t from me, i call them out every time.
enfilmigult
@MarionPaige: “The flow of money to anti-gay marriages groups has probably slowed as much as the flow of money to pro-gay marriage groups. Like, how much money is flowing to Freedom to Marry New York now that New York has legalized gay marriage?”
Of course, this ignores that Freedom to Marry New York gets less (or no) money now because it’s *accomplished its goal.* Not so much for NOM and their ilk, who still have something to raise funds to fight against, but are failing all the same.
“Doesn’t the fact that no one is gay marrying count as a defeat to some extent?”
Is that a fact? And if so, no, it doesn’t—that gay people have the choice to get married or not is the victory, not what choice they make. The “theory” wasn’t that there ws a big flood of people wanting to marry, it was that there was a big flood of people wanting to be able to DECIDE if they married, instead of having that choice made for them.
“the means by which gay marriage has been obtained has ‘poisoned the well’ against gay people”
No idea what you’re talking about here I’m afraid…the fact that we didn’t wait around for the popular vote to make it happen, I guess? If so, that only “poisons the well” among people who were looking for an excuse for it to be poisoned anyway. Interracial marriage was legalized nationwide by a single Supreme Court decision—the popular vote’s power to decide it was taken away a lot more suddenly and completely than it has this time, in other words—and that didn’t exactly “poison the well.”
“There is a war going on against gay people that was sparked by gay fucking marriage but, now, that war is bigger than that one issue. This is something the gay fucking marriage fucktards either don’t realize or they simply don’t care about.”
I don’t get it, you seem to be acting like the fight for gay rights started a few years ago with Prop 8 and nothing much was going on before that. (NOW “the war is bigger than that one issue”? Where have you been?) Frankly this entire thing smells like a troll post to me.
MarionPaige
the available data on gay marriage is showing that there are not a lot of people interested in marrying someone of the same sex. There are bursts of gay marriages when a ban is struck down but, as time goes on, no one is marrying someone of the same sex. AND,
I don’t think this can be dismissed as a reason why The Supreme Court did not take the Prop 8 lawsuit and as a reason why The Supreme Court won’t rule on gay marriage as a constitutional right, i.e., it can’t be proven or alleged that gay marriage is an issue that the gay community is interested in; it only affects a very small number of recruited plaintiffs.
Any court HAS to weigh whether a controversy / dispute is a genuine dispute by aggrieved parties or, whether an action is all just a manufactured event.
MarionPaige
again, AFER and Chad Griffin made no secret of the fact that they recruited the plaintiffs for their Prop 8 lawsuit. THIS cannot be dismissed as a reason why The Supreme Court wasn’t all that eager to accept AFER’s Prop 8 lawsuit.
1EqualityUSA
Oh shut the Hell up, MaggionPaige
Virge
@MarionPaige: <<<RE this creature's comment above. Go back and read it as if it was written by some gay who says he's against gay marriage, never will get married to cover up for things like being obese, or other issues that we all know keep guys from forming relationships. Then the comment above will make perfect sense.
Saint Law
@enfilmigult: MarionPaige isn’t a troll. It’s genuinely insane.
MarionPaige
Gay Marriage. The Hijacking of Evolution
1EqualityUSA
Again with the number Maggie…If even one couple is denied equality, it is one too many. The principle of inalienable rights doesn’t take numbers into account. The principle of equality stands even if nobody (chooses) to marry. The principle allows us to choose, not have the decision made for us by others. Maggion Gallagher Paige and all the rest, here on Gallagher’s Isle, want to make this choice for us. We refuse to be second class citizens.
Cam
@MarionPaige:
Marion Page is just another Screename for BJ McFrisky. They both will always take the side of any anti-gay group, anti-gay bigot, and they will pretend they are gay supportive but they will always spout lines like “Studies show not many gays are interested in getting married”
But they will never put up a link to back up their phony comments.
MarionPaige
That’s what Churchill said when he evacuated that english town and alerted germany that their code had been broken. Churchill said: “If even one englishman died because of that german bombing, that would have been one englishman too many”.
1EqualityUSA
We are winning this fight. Live with it.
MarionPaige
I absolutely wish I could legalize gay fucking marriage in all 50 states right now.
1EqualityUSA
Is this your other personality speaking now?
PARKAVMAN
At least Brian Brown can point to one Traditional Marriage coming up…Charlie Manson. That’s a big win for NOM.
Brian
Kudos to Fred Karger, founder of Rights Equal Rights, who for years doggedly challenged NOM in several state courts and before the IRS to publicly release NOM’s tax returns and donor lists as required by law. In many states, including CA and Maine, Fred Karger succeeded in having state campaign regulatory agencies level unprecedented fines against NOM for illegal campaign practices. NOM unleashed their lawyers on Fred but he persevered continuing to fly all over the country at personal expense to file complaints and testify before government regulators against NOM. Near single-handedly, Fred Karger made NOM co-founders Maggie Gallagher and Brian Brown lives miserable by forcing them to appear and defend against Fred’s numerous legal complaints. Fred publicly exposed the specifics of the illegal, underhanded, hate-mongering underbelly of NOM’s anti-gay operations that cost NOM, Brown & Gallagher their reputations and donor base. Fred Karger deserves high praise for the downfall of NOM.
eddiesocket
@MarionPaige: “I absolutely wish I could legalize gay fucking marriage in all 50 states right now.” That would be more convincing if you didn’t say “fucking” each time, and if you didn’t express anger at the fact that marriage is legal in 35 states and tell silly lies that the “well” has somehow been “poisoned” against gay people.
Fortunately, self-loathing gays are just as cartoonishly irrelevant gay-loathing straights like Brown and Perkins.
MarionPaige
wikipedia claims that NOM was formed in 2007 specifically to pass Prop 8 in California. From California, NOM became a national organization, it donated a million dollars to fight gay marriage in Maine.
MarionPaige
” … the group has opposed civil union legislation and gay adoption and has fought against transgender rights”.
MarionPaige
“The Southern Poverty Law Center included NOM on its Winter 2010 list of “anti-gay groups”. emphasis on anti-gay (as opposed to anti-gay marriage)
tricky ricky
@MarionPaige: ALL gay rights have been won in the courts. if it wasn’t for the courts it would still be illegal for gays to gather in groups of TWO or to use the postal system to send information about homosexuality through the mail or to form gay organizations. now why don’t you just troll your lying self out of here missy. I’ve noticed you whack jobs have been hitting a lot of gay sites today spewing your manufactured swill.
tricky ricky
@eddiesocket: marion’s a right wing troll. probably maggie or brian striking out in desperation.
tricky ricky
@MarionPaige: you’re a right wing fruitcake spewing manufactured by nom lies.
SteveDenver
How do they explain to their gullible followers that GOD can’t protect marriage? How do they dupe their faithful imbeciles into believing anything they say is true, when the sky hasn’t fallen?
MarionPaige
You wonder how Phelps held it together long enough to win all of those medals, he seems so reckless. You would think a professional athlete would be more cautious with his body.
These young guys who are fairly well known and have money should just use hookers. Do they think they’re saving money by having sex with random freaks online?
gaym50ish
People who say that gays are not marrying when given the chance seem to assume that all gays are ready to grab the nearest person and get married the moment it becomes legal. That’s not very realistic. Gays go through the same ritual of courtship and cohabitation as straight people before they’re ready to commit for a lifetime.
In the straight world, the annual marriage rate is less than 9 people per 1,000. Why should it be greater than that for gays who are newly entitled to marry — and ESPECIALLY during the time when the entitlement is so new?
In the Netherlands, which has had gay marriage for more than a decade, 2 percent of ALL marriages are uniting gay couples. And that’s not because people are flocking there from all over Europe, as some of the anti-gay groups are saying, because their law requires that at least one partner be a Dutch citizen.
Saint Law
@MarionPaige: Speaking of random freaks online you’re posting to the wrong thread you moron.
MarionPaige
@gaym50ish
Gay Marriages have been legal in Mass for a decade. There have only been significant numbers of gay marriages in states that allowed non-residents to marry (when there weren’t a lot of states where gays could marry). In one sense, your argument sounds reasonable, if you look at gay couples that got together in 2004 or later. However, you have to look at all of the older gay couples who had already been together for decades when gay marriages were legalized in 2004 in Mass – most of those people did not run out to legalize their relationships.
The same argument can be made for California. California had the most liberal and elaborate domestic partners registry in the county (all benefits of marriage except the word marriage) prior to legal marriage in that State. So, by the time gay people could legally marry in CA, you would have “expected” a significant number of those existing domestic partnerships to covert to marriage (i.e. extremely high numbers of gay marriages in CA).
As I mentioned before, there was a point where CA amended it domestic partners registry to make the assets of registered domestic partners community property. A number of registered domestic partners dissolved their partnerships before the change went into effect to prevent their property from becoming community property. In this instance, ALL THE BENEFITS OF LEGAL MARRIAGE caused gay couples to dissolve their domestic partnerships.
Cam
@MarionPaige: said…. “Gay Marriages have been legal in Mass for a decade. There have only been significant numbers of gay marriages in states that allowed non-residents to marry (when there weren’t a lot of states where gays could marry).”
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And once again Marion (BJ McFrisky) LOVES to make statements without providing any links or back-up. The problem is, they cannot provide back-up for their false statements so they hope that nobody points out what they are doing.
Consider it pointed out BJ, I mean Marion, um, I mean Brent, etc…
1EqualityUSA
MarionPaige wrote, ” (all benefits of marriage except the word marriage)” which is a blatant lie. I was domestic partnered and the rights were not the same. If I covered my spouse, it was taxed as though extra income. If one of us died, we would be exorbitantly nailed for tax on half the house, if one of us died, too bad, no benefits transfer. You are such a troll…with a broken right wing constantly flapping.
1EqualityUSA
MarionPaige, Why don’t you follow your own selfish, exploitative advice and, “Go use a hooker.” Nobody respects you here. Go away, slime mold. The word, “Fucktard” was bequeathed to us back in 2008 from a guy we respected. That term used to be one of my favorite names for someone so gross, so asinine that normal insults wouldn’t cut it, like Romney and such. Now that you’ve absconded with this perfect word, I can’t and won’t use it any longer. Your opinions, your exploitative use of hookers, your twisted logic is beyond annoying. Who pays you to come on here and attempt to sway the gay? Have you no life? I’ve been out walking dogs with a friend, I’m going out with another soon, and the garden is calling my name. All you do is sit around scratching those never-healing sores on your skin and come up with bullshit to make us react. Go away.
Cam, even BJ McF can’t be this annoying. This has to be Gallagher. She’s got a ton of time on her hands and hates us.
Cam
@1EqualityUSA:
Agreed!
And hey Marion (BJ, Brent etc…) If the “Marriage” is no different than Civil Unions, so that we shouldn’t care about it……..then why are people fighting so hard to keep it from us? If it’s no big deal, then they wouldn’t care so much now would they?
Oh, and just to remind everybody, Marion (BJ) loves to try to alter the topic anytime it is about anything anti-gay failing, so just to repeat. NOM has failed, is in debt and is collapsing.
Cam
@1EqualityUSA: said… “Cam, even BJ McF can’t be this annoying. This has to be Gallagher. She’s got a ton of time on her hands and hates us.”
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You think? I always figured she was very cynical and was in it for the money. I mean how could she hate gay men, she’s married to one isn’t she? (Allegedly) 😉
JayHobeSound
Maggie Gallagher’s crunchy snack expenses surely contributed to the crushing debt. All those radical-right ‘Family Research Council’ state branches, NOM, etc., have been cash cows for the con-artists that run them. Right wingers are known to leave outstanding debts – Newt Gingrich still owes vendors around the country for his failed 2008 campaign, Palin owes money, surely NOM’s shills will abandon their debt and resurface under another self-righteous name. The Republican mantra:
Personal Responsibility for thee, bankruptcy protection for me.
Maude
PLAN ‘A’….When your enemy is losing it’s life blood, (money) don’t give it a transfusion (money) by publicizing it’s dire need of it’s life blood. (money)
LESSON #1….Shut up.
PLAN ‘B’….If you enact ‘lesson #1’—-You won’t need Plan ‘B’.