NOM Continues Divisive Strategy With New Video

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Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.

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The antigay National Organization for Marriage, which, it was recently revealed, seeks to pit blacks and Latinos against LGBT people in the fight over marriage equality, has posted a new video on its blog and YouTube that represents a continuation of that strategy.

NOM seems to be attempting to deflect any charges that it encouraged such opposition; text accompanying the video on its blog reads, "Watch this video and it's pretty clear that African-American and Latino leaders who oppose same-sex marriage are doing so out of deep conviction, like other Americans." It features such antigay figures as ministers Harry Jackson and Patrick Wooden, state senator Ruben Diaz of New York, and Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr. Naturally, it ignores the fact that many African-American and Latino political and religious leaders support marriage equality and LBGT rights in general, and that some are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender themselves.

Scott Rose has a scathing commentary on the video at Pam's House Blend, beginning, "In response to criticism of its deliberate strategy of attempting to pit African-Americans against gays, NOM is attempting to pit African-Americans against gays." Read that here, and watch the video below.