Get over it, NOM. That ship has sailed.
Ah, the post-election press release cycle. When every last sodding interest group expresses pleasure at how wonderfully they did,
even when they didn't.
The National Organization for Marriage, a conservative group that campaigns against same-sex marriage, popped the cork for some post-midterms rejoicing on Monday. On its website, the organization "claimed victory" in last week's elections, gleefully celebrating Democrats' wins over three Republicans who supported same-sex marriage. But NOM's joy is a bit misplaced: The Democrats who won support the same policies the group is fighting against.
The logic here is that sure, those damned Democrats who won may be supportive of LGBT causes (the National Organization for Marriage is an anti-gay group, remember), but at least they beat those damned Republicans who were supportive of LGBT causes.
You may be wondering why a theoretically (cough) nonpartisan group devoted to the supposed protection of marriage would care whether the elected officials about to further damage their precious cause were of one party or the other. The answer is that the National Organization for Marriage openly considers purity of the Republican Party to be more important than the outcome of actual races.
As I noted back in October, NOM targeted GOP Senate candidate Monica Wehby in Oregon (who endorsed same-sex marriage), and two openly gay Republican House candidates, Carl DeMaio in California and Richard Tisei in Massachusetts. All three lost last week. "I hope that our success in defeating these three Republican candidates sends a message to the Republican leadership in Washington," NOM president Brian Brown said in the statement, "that the GOP faithful demands candidates who are committed to defending marriage, which is a critical element of the Republican platform."
So NOM is so engaged in their anti-LGBT battles that they're willing to do as much damage to the Republican Party as it takes to get their way. That sounds like no definition of "victory" most people would be familiar with, but it does point to the desperation of anti-LGBT equality efforts. They're at each other's throats now, and they're bragging about it.