This is NOT
as bad as it gets.
But it's close.
"Gay marriage is the
tip of the spear, the weapon that will be and is being used to marginalize and
repress Christianity and the Church."
Just days after announcing an effort to
spearhead a global boycott of Starbucks due to its stance on marriage equality,
the National Organization for Marriage has been hit with a controversy of its
own making: internal "strategy" memos that clearly outline its hatred
for gays and its intent to "drive a wedge between gays and blacks--two key
Democratic constituencies." It also proposed to " interrupt this
process of assimilation [in the Hispanic community] by making support for
marriage a key badge of Latino identity" and targeted President Obama to
be painted as a "radical" opposing traditional values.
It also boasted about the
support of Rick Santorum:
"Senator Rick Santorum
has recently agreed to use his voice in a nationwide automated call effort to
solicit activists and donations."
"The current state of
despair over the future of marriage is manufactured, a weapon in our opponents'
hand"
With militaristic rhetoric of warfare
("behind enemy lines) and "weapons" the abysmal memo lays out
plans for the years to come with headings like "Not A Civil Right"
Project and The Catholic Clergy Project.
It also lauded its efforts in states such as Maine and California, especially
its involvement in Prop 8. The memo was ostensibly intended for staff and major
donors only.
The MAIN Strategies
NOM has always contended that its primary goal is the
"protection" of marriage. But "protection" does not
insinuate force. "Defense" does not insinuate attack, or even
divide and conquer:
"The strategic goal of this
project is to drive a wedge between gays and blacks--two key Democratic
constituencies. Find, equip, energize and connect African American spokespeople
for marriage, develop a media campaign around their objections to gay marriage
as a civil right; provoke the gay marriage base into responding by denouncing
these spokesmen and women as bigots--
"but we
will be helped by an emerging new set of black leaders who are upset their
voices and values have been ignored by the culturally liberal white elites.
The Latino vote in America
is a key swing vote, and will be even more so in the future because of
demographic growth. Will the process of assimilation to the dominant Anglo
culture lead Hispanics to abandon traditional family values? We can interrupt
this process of assimilation by making support for marriage a key badge of
Latino identity.
The use
of two minorities in opposing another minority. Cool.
The MAINE Downfall
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