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| If I had as bad of a season as NOM & Brian Brown, I would cry too. |
The National Organization for Marriage is having what has to be called an awful season.
In addition to the multitude of states who now allow marriage equality, the organization just suffered an huge monetary defeat.
From the blog The Slowly Boiled Frog (by way of Goodasyou):
United States Circuit Court Judge James Cacheris has denied reimbursement of legal fees to National Organization for Marriage for their lawsuit against the IRS. NOM claimed that they spent over $690,000 in legal expenses. Much of that went to NOM's chairman, John Eastman. That presupposes that the sums were actually disbursed and NOM has been known to fib from time to time and Eastman is a pathological liar.
Check out Goodasyou for the juicier bit of the transcripts. And The Slowly Boiled Frog points out how this decision is especially embarrassing for NOM. The organization has initially won a $50,000 settlement in the case from the IRS.
Now while I know folks are tempted to dance in the spray of NOM's monetary humiliation, I would ask that they hold off for a brief second because this next item is practically a cherry on top of a sundae.
From Right Wing Watch:
Joe Jervis points us to a debate on C-SPAN this weekend between the National Organization for Marriage’s Brian Brown and Freedom to Marry’s Evan Wolfson, where things got a little contentious when Wolfson confronted Brown about his anti-gay activism in Russia.
Right Wing Watch goes into more detail regarding what Brown evaded in the debate.
And if you are interested in finding out what exactly Brown calls "lies and slurs, check out The Export of Hate, a rather accurate view by the Human Rights Campaign of anti-gay leaders who have traveled throughout the world spreading anti-gay lies and propaganda (the part about Brown begins on pg. 17).
All in all, it's been a really crappy two weeks for NOM and it's been my pleasure in helping to bring it to you.