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Prolific video maker and JMG reader Sean Chapin turns in this mock trailer for a horror movie called The Homosexuals, who are totally coming to take your children and your religious freedoms.

The Washington DC City Council is poised to introduce its marriage equality bill later this month with an “assured majority” of council members as co-sponsors. [Openly gay] D.C. City Council member David Catania (I-At Large) is expected to introduce a bill to allow same-sex marriages to be performed in the District before month’s end, according to sources familiar with Catania’s …

NOM founder Maggie Gallagher thinks LGBT people are being just downright “unneighborly” when we vigorously protest our legalized oppression at the hands of the Christian right. Why, we should all be politely tipping our hats as Maggie sneers, “Shut up and eat your nothing!” “Here’s the truth: You will now be called a hater and a bigot merely for standing …

The ombudsman for the Washington Post has posted an apology for last week’s glowing profile of NOM’s executive director, Brian Brown. [I]t deprived readers of hearing from others who have battled Brown and find him uncivil and bigoted. To them, he represents injustice. They should have been heard, at length. “In a profile piece, for a controversial figure like that …

After his loving hagiography from the Washington Post, NOM’s Brian Brown felt brave enough to take on Michelangelo Signorile. Mistake.

Fred Karger of Californians Against Hate is getting some traction in Maine regarding his allegation of NOM’s money laundering. Jonathan Wayne, Executive Director of State of Maine Commission of Governmental Ethics and Elections Practices, sent a strongly worded four page letter to Stand for Marriage Maine PAC (SFMMP) and the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), seeking more information on the …

Anti-gay candidate Stephen Burgmeirer, who was backed by NOM to the tune of $86,000 in TV and radio ads, lost in yesterday’s Iowa House special election. Democrat Curt Hanson defeated Republican Stephen Burgmeier by 107 votes tonight in a special election for Iowa House District 90, according to unofficial results from the Iowa secretary of state. Hanson tallied 48.9 percent …

HRC Backstory reports that in addition to being investigated for for violating campaign finance laws in Maine, now the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board is looking into NOM’s shenanigans too. Turns out NOM has failed to register as a PAC and disclose contributors. NOM even boasts in their fundraising letters that they offer donors anonymity. Said the Iowa board …

The Washington Post has published a glowing profile of Brian Brown, the executive director of the National Organization for Marriage, whom they describe “ruthlessly sane” and “instantly likeable.” Is it possible, in 2009, to avoid the title of “gay basher” while dedicating your life to preventing a portion of the population from participating in a legal process allowed to other …

Bookended with commentary from One Iowa….

NOM has made an $86K radio and television buy on behalf of Iowa House candidate Stephen Burgmeier, who is working to overturn marriage equality. On Top Magazine reports: Anti-gay marriage groups are ratcheting up their efforts to influence the Iowa Legislature in an effort to repeal gay marriage in the state. The latest evidence of such a plan can be …

Despite his recent foray into birther wingnuttery, CNN moderator Lou Dobbs actually says some sensible things here, demanding that Maggie Gallagher explain how opposite marriage is damaged by gay marriage. “You’re blaming homosexuals for an institution that’s under assault by just about everything BUT gays!” Tobias Wolff is typically great here.

Two dozen marriage equality supporters protested outside the gates of Rhode Island’s Aldrich Mansion yesterday as NOM held an anti-gay “family picnic” in which a reported 100 couples renewed their opposite marriage vows. “Their goal is marriage as an exclusive institution and our goal is marriage as an inclusive institution,” said Wendy Becker, who joined in the protest outside the …

Californians Against Hate has sent a letter to election officials in Maine, warning that the National Organization for Marriage and other groups may involved in some funny business with their donations. The charges arise out of the payments made to the professional petition gathering group that successfully put a repeal of same-sex marriage on the November ballot. From the letter …

There will be a protest at the National Organization for Marriage’s hatefest in Rhode Island this Sunday. From the Providence Equality Action Committee’s Facebook action page. This Sunday, the National Organization for Marriage is holding a “Marriage Day” at the Aldrich Mansion in Warwick. The purpose of this event is to build support for bigotry and exclusion of LGBT people …

NOM’s Christopher Plante responds to Tim Hortons pulling out their Rhode Island event: “It’s stressful, it’s sorrowful, it’s saddening,” Plante said. “The marriage equality folks are making this a boycott threat. That’s sad. It has become our job now to remind Rhode Islanders that this is what’s to come.” Plante added that the event is apolitical, saying, “It’s held by …

Congratulations! All your emails and phone calls were heard. From the Tim Hortons corporate site: Recently, Tim Hortons was approached in Rhode Island to provide free coffee and products for a local event, as we do thousands of times a year across Canada and the United States. For 45 years, Tim Hortons and its store owners have practiced a philosophy …

Tim Hortons, the Canadian doughnut chain with over 500 locations in the U.S., is sponsoring a National Organization for Marriage anti-gay event in Rhode Island, at which the featured speaker will be the reptilian Maggie Gallagher herself. Wesli Dymoke at Providence Daily Dose is floored: Yes, Tim Hortons. The Dunkin Donuts of Canada. You know, Canada — where same-sex marriage …

Over at Good As You, Jeremy has uncovered the NOM-affiliated Ruth Institute’s “Same Sex Marriage Home Party Kit.” For a mere $100 you get bumper stickers, wrist bands, CDs, and the four hour DVD course on why Jeebus himself endorses opposite marriage. Make a difference in your community with your own friends and neighbors! Purchase the “Same Sex Marriage Affects …

Marriage equality opponents in Maine have hired the publicity firm behind California’s Yes On 8 campaign. Organizers of an effort to overturn a new law legalizing same-sex marriage in Maine have hired the California public relations firm that ran the successful Proposition 8 campaign to overturn same-sex marriage there. Supporters of the law have hired a seasoned Maine political strategist …