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ck4829

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Wed Mar 28, 2012, 11:06 AM Mar 2012

NOM memo: Let's get traumatized people who had gay parents (Couldn't find any)

HRC got its hands last night on a December 2009 National Organization for Marriage strategy document, which was unsealed in connection to NOM’s court challenge to Maine’s campaign finance disclosure laws.

The most explosive revelation in the document is NOM’s explicit plan to drive a wedge between the gay community and blacks and Latinos. But another part of their effort to recruit “hearts and minds” to the anti-marriage cause is also startling. Not only did NOM propose to document anti-gay “victims” of gay rights with emotional videos– a plan they implemented with a set of glossy films in upstate New York, for instance – they proposed to hire a staff member at $50,000 a year “to identify children of gay parents willing to speak on camera”.

Did NOM end up hiring someone to find children of gay parents who they could portray as “victims”? If so, it seems that a year’s worth of full-time work didn’t turn up a single child of gay parents who was willing to be portrayed as a “victim” of marriage equality.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/did-nom-hire-someone-unsuccessfully-find-victims-gay-parents

If gay parents are worse than having wolves as parents then this should have been easy, what's up NOM?

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NOM memo: Let's get traumatized people who had gay parents (Couldn't find any) (Original Post) ck4829 Mar 2012 OP
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cbayer

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3. This link doesn't work, but I would really like to sign this petition.
Sat Mar 31, 2012, 12:38 PM
Mar 2012

The appointment was made by John Boehner, it should be noted.

If you can get the correct link, I will post this as an original article for you.

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