NOM strategic goal "to drive wedge between gays and blacks"
NOM strategic goal “to drive wedge between gays and blacks”
By Joey Grant
A link to more of National Organization for Marriage being exposed.
VIA AMERICABLOG.GAY
It’s not like we didn’t think this was happening, but, wow, it’s really ugly to see it in writing.
Earlier tonight, Alvin McEwen tipped me off about some court documents that revealed NOM’s strategy. It’s ugly. From Alvin:
The National Organization for Marriage’s unsuccessful fight to skirt Maine’s financial disclosure laws just backfired majorly on the group by revealing a distasteful part of its game plan to stop marriage equality.
According to a court document that was uploaded online, NOM specifically worked to drive a wedge between the black and gay community on the subject of marriage equality
Here’s the key passage about gays and blacks (and there’s also a strategy for Latinos):
The strategic goal of this project is to drive a wedge between gays and blacks – two key democratic constituencies. We aim to find, equip, energize and connect African American spokespeople for marriage; to develop a media campaign around their objections to gay marriage as a civil right; and to provoke the gay marriage base into responding by denouncing these spokesmen and women as bigots. No politician wants to take up and push an issue that splits the base of the party. Fanning the hostility raised in the wake of Prop 8 is key…
Meet NOM 2011
The full document is below.
Nom Depo Exhibit 28
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