At this point, it might be wiser for the National Organization for Marriage and the Mormon Church to just declare themselves for-profit enterprises. Sure, they’d be subject to income and payroll taxes, but thanks to the just-declared 5-4 Supreme Court ruling that tossed out a 63-year-old campaign finance law, corporations (and unions) are now exempt from spending limits on advertising to support individual political candidates. (They still have caps on how much they can contribute directly to campaigns.) That means television ad spending is gonna be bananas during election season! “The decision’s most immediate effect is to permit corporate and union-sponsored political ads to run right up to the moment of an election, and to allow them to call for the election or defeat of a candidate,” relays the AP. “In presidential elections and in highly contested congressional contests, that could mean a dramatic increase in television advertising competing for time and public attention.”
Which means if NOM ditched its 501(3)(c) status — which it allegedly abuses anyhow — they could funnel all the cash they wanted to the Scott Browns of America without the threat of having to reveal their donors. And then maybe, one day, Maggie Gallagher & Co. could go public and we could be giving shares of NYSE:NOM as stocking stuffers.
UPDATE: We didn’t read the ruling carefully enough, and as a commenter notes, the ruling applies to non-profits as well. Which means NOM and LDS can keep their non-profit standings and still donate all it wants to political campaigns. Huzzah!
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Republican
The ruling deals with non-profits as well, not just unions and corporations.
romeo
Look at that picture of Gallagher. Doesn’t she just look like the cold-blooded, vindictive bitch that she is.
romeo
also fat.
1EqualityUSA
The muscles in her face don’t indicate a happy spirit.
Mike L
She was probably dumped by a gay man earlier in her life and is lashing out, just like spitzer’s ex. Bitter bitter biatch.
romeo
I think for all these bitches it goes back to something like that. Predictable response when faced with the realization that their vaginas were not, in fact, magic. LOL
ajax
@Mike L: Mr. and Mrs. Spitzer are still a married couple and Mr. Spitzer is not gay. He’s man-crushable, but not gay.
planetspinz
National Organization for Marriage (inequality) is not a 501C3 it is a 501C4
http://www.nationformarriage.org/site/c.omL2KeN0LzH/b.3479573/k.E2D0/About_NOM.htm
Consistent with its 501(c)(4) nonprofit status, NOM works to develop political messaging, build its national grassroots email database of voters, and provide political intelligence and donor infrastructure on the state level, with a focus on developing new strategies for increasing influence in the Northeast and West Coast, where marriage is most under threat.
They have hidden their tax-exempt status here
NOM Education Fund
The NOM Education Fund represents another aspect of NOM’s overall effort to protect marriage, engaged solely in pro-marriage education and research, making information resources available to clergy, scholars, political leaders, and activists across the country. The NOM Education Fund is separately organized as a 501(c)(3) organization and NOM Education Fund donations are tax deductible.
alan brickman
how much does she pay herself for spreading hate speech??
schlukitz
No. 3 · romeo
Also fugly. 😉
Jake
This article is NONSENSICAL drivel. Straight and gay people’s liberties were taken away today, and our country has become the United states of WAL mart and you’re fucking bitching about how ugly this woman is? please go on dontgetrolled.org and sign the petition to get the constitution changed. Otherwise, we’re going to have the Viagra Senator from Phizer, and the Big Mac congressman from McDonalds. Thank you George Motherfucking Bush! what an asswipe.
Steve
The NOM organization solicits tax-exempt donations to its NOM Education Fund. The money that is contributed to that Education Fund is used to pay for publishing “educational” messages (a.k.a., advertising). The nature of the “educational” messages always has something to do with marriage, and coincidentally seem to be broadcast just before elections.
It’s a sham, of course. The real purpose of the NOM Education Campaign is to use tax-exemption to entice donors, who know full well that the money will really be used for political advertising.
A for-profit business could not give that tax exemption to its customers.
terrwill
Maggot Gallagher is a reprehensive, miserable, hateful, bitter, old crunt…….
terrwill
Sorry, my fingers go on auto pilot whenever I see a thread about Maggot. Howeva I wanted to make sure my cheerios were fully digested before I took a gander at her photo, (cause I hate tossin cheerios all over my keyboard). Looks she has had some work done on her mug! Sorry Maggot, you can spend tens of thousands of dollars in an appempt to make your disturbing poor example of a face more appealing, however the ugliness inside will prevent you from ever appearing even remotely attractive…….
romeo
I doubt if she’s had work done. #1 – Look at that tree stump of a neck. #2 – ANY plastic surgeon in LA would throw her ass out the consultation room door screaming “What the fuck do you think I am?!” LOL
And you’re right, Jake, the Supremes screwed the country big time with that decision to turn over the election process to corporate cash, but the American people as a whole are clueless and gullible. They’ll fall for the unlimited barrage of ads. It’s the worst scenario possible for trying to solve the profound problems this country faces. The Supremes knew that things were getting dicey in regard to “The People” asserting themselves in this economic crisis, and they will do anything to keep that from happening. The Supreme Court as currently constituted is a tool of the wiseguy failures that created our ruin, and they will do anything to hide and obfuscate their failure while continuing to loot what wealth we have left. We have never been less of a representative democracy than we are now.
You may think I’m being OTT, but wait and see. But gay people will be fine. It’s the beat down weed that grows up the strongest, to paraphrase our great American lesbian, Willa Cather.