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Christian Org Backs Collins, Wants ESPN Reporter Suspended

By Jason St. Amand | Thursday May 2, 2013
A Christian group has launched a petition against an ESPN writer who slammed Jason Collins for coming out and being Christian. Meanwhile, the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage has applauded the reporter.

Reuters: Major Anti-Gay Marriage Group in Financial Straits

By Jason St. Amand | Friday Feb 1, 2013
Reuters revealed that a leading anti-gay marriage group is in major financial straits and is struggling to pay the costs of arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court to defend California’s Prop. 8.

Maine Notaries Required to Marry Same-Sex Couples

By Jason St. Amand | Tuesday Dec 18, 2012
Thanks to Maine’s Human Rights Act, notaries in the state will not be allowed to refuse same-sex couples who wish to get married when same-sex marriage becomes legal later this month.

NOM Sets Sights on Starbucks for Gay Marriage Support

By Jason St. Amand | Wednesday Nov 14, 2012
A leading anti-gay marriage group is targeting Starbucks for its support and has launched a campaign that aims to warn the coffee company’s Middle Eastern customers about its pro-gay stance.

Anti-Marriage Group Sees Corporations Move to the Other Side

By Shaun Knittel | Tuesday Jul 10, 2012
Fortune 500 giant corporations have steadily become so outspoken in favor of gay marriage that the National Organization for Marriage, in a tacit surrender, is begging them only to be neutral.

One of the Most Prominent Marriage Equality Critics Dramatically Recants

By Steve Weinstein | Sunday Jun 24, 2012
In the most public way possible, an op-ed in the New York Times, David Blankenhorn, who has led the national fight against same-sex marriage, did a 180-degree turn, to the vocal regret of his allies on the Right.

Exposing the National Organization for Marriage

By Sue O’Connell | Wednesday Apr 4, 2012
On Monday night, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) publicized a series of documents marked "confidential" that outlined the National Organization for Marriage’s (NOM) plan to stop marriage equality.

Vandals Strike University’s Gay Center

By Kilian Melloy | Tuesday Oct 18, 2011
Vandals struck a building at North Carolina State University, located in Raleigh, NC, reported NBC News on Oct. 18. The university’s GLBT student group has space in the building that was targeted.

NOM’s ’New’ Mission: Protect Christians from Gay Thugs

By Kilian Melloy | Tuesday Sep 27, 2011
NOM’s new mission: Fend off gay thugs who would otherwise victimize innocent Christians. NOM’s new group: the "Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance," or MADA. But these new things arise from an anti-gay myth NOM has been cultivating for years.

Anti-Gay NOM Gets New Chairman

By David Crary | Friday Sep 23, 2011
A law school professor from Southern California was named Thursday as the new chairman of the National Organization for Marriage, one of the most active groups opposed to the legalization of same-sex marriage.