How the National Organization for Marriage Doomed Itself to Collapse - According to Slate writer Mark Joseph Stern, the National Organization for Marriage is imploding before us all for a simple reason which has nothing to do with homophobia. While I don't like to pronounce the end of any anti-lgbt equality group before they are in the grave, Stern makes an excellent point. However, I have to disagree with him on this point:
That's simply not true. NOM merely followed the same playbook that Anita Bryant and others did when attempting to defeat pro-lgbt laws and such. It's an old playbook and I wish the community would get serious about analyzing it in a manner which can broken down in simple terms.
Wait a minute. Some of us have.After its success in California, the group took its tactics on the road, successfully batting away marriage equality in Maine and North Carolina while exacting revenge on judges who dared to uphold legal equality. Through these campaigns, NOM rewrote the modern anti-gay playbook, demeaning the LGBTQ community as promiscuous, predatory, diseased, and disordered.
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The problem with Mark Joseph Stern's article about NOM is that Stern is an idiot whose schtick is mixing drivel and blatantly wrong statements with mischaracterized truth. He is rarely worth reading.
It is easy to mistake Slate for Salon, given the similarity of their names and the types of writing they do. The difference is that Salon's posts are well-written, well-reasoned pieces that are almost always worthwhile contributions to the conversation; Slate's posts almost never are. If you are reading a Salon article that is sensationalistic, muddle-headed and riddled with untrue statements, look again: you're reading something from Slate, not Salon.
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