The National Organization for Marriage
(NOM) has called results of its latest fundraising drive “pathetic.”
NOM is the largest group dedicated to
repealing the Supreme Court's 2015 finding that gay and lesbian
couples have a constitutional right to marry. In the years leading
up to the ruling, NOM's president, Brian Brown, repeatedly predicted
that increasing support for marriage equality in the United States
would not result in nationwide marriage rights for gay couples. A
year after the high court's ruling, Brown continues to claim that his
group has a plan to reverse it.
In 2011, NOM
vowed to roll back marriage equality in New York in four years.
“NOM began our critical Summer
Membership Drive on July 22nd,” Brown said in a letter
to supporters. “We're now three weeks into our drive – the
halfway point – and we have only received 256 contributions from
our members. We're only 17% toward our goal of receiving 1,500
membership contributions of at last $35. That is pathetic.”
With such “pathetic” results, NOM
cannot “lobby the next President and the US Senate to only appoint
and confirm Supreme Court justices who will reverse the illegitimate
and anti-constitution ruling redefining marriage,” Brown said.
It should be pointed out that NOM
backed Texas Senator Ted Cruz's presidential aspirations, not those
of Donald Trump, the Republican nominee.
“I really don't believe – I just
can't imagine the thought – that NOM's members have quit fighting
for the institution of marriage as a union between man and woman. And
yet, only 256 of you have responded with an urgently needed
membership contribution during this critical period,” Brown said,
adding that unless 1,500 people “step up … we'll have no choice
but to lay people off, cut programs and stop pursuing some of our
most important work.”
Right
Wing Watch points out: “Regardless of what kind of response
NOM’s shaming email brings in, Brown will have plenty of
anti-equality work to keep him busy, as he recently became president
of the World Congress of Families, a network of organizations
dedicated to resisting LGBT equality and preserving anti-gay
discrimination around the world.”