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Days and Slights: This Week in NOM (Feb. 26 - Mar. 3)
Dear NOM Watcher, As you may or may not know, NOM built its entire identity off the back of Proposition 8. Maggie Gallagher talks at length about how that ballot campaign took root (on Christmas Eve 2007), how NOM sent...
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Days and Slights: This Week in NOM (Mar. 4 - Mar. 10)
Dear NOM Watcher, Every week, when I look back at what I and National Org. for Marriage staffers wrote during the prior seven days so that I can bring you this wrap, I try to see if any themes come... Read Post
At this time in '07, NOM began #Prop8 process; what are they planning right now?
In December of 2007, Maggie Gallagher, Robert George, Brian Brown, Bishop Cordileone, and others (at the behest of Cordileone) began scheming to put a marriage ban on the California ballot the following year. On Xmas Eve of that yea... Read Post
Audio: Because coal would've been too thoughtful: Maggie Gallagher says Prop 8 was birthed on Xmas Eve 2007
In the following speech, given immediately after Prop 8's November 2008 passage, Maggie Gallagher details how it began, NOM's involvement, the deep Catholic root, and the day it all came together (Hint: The fifth verse of "Twelve Da... Read Post