NOM's Agenda Exposed: Drive a Wedge Between Gays and Blacks

I have often lamented about the manner in which members of the black community - black pastors in particular - have allowed themselves to be manipulated like trained circus dogs to do the bidding of white Christianists - many of who are the direct descendants of those who supported slavery, then segregation and bans on interracial marriage. These white Christianist groups hold no love for black Americans. Rather it's all about cynically using them to achieve Christianist goals that do not involve the betterment of blacks in society. Now, at last the Christianist scheme has been boldly exposed as documents have been unsealed in Maine as part of the ongoing investigation by the State of Maine into the campaign finance activities of the National Organization for Marriage ("NOM") in that state. HRC's NOM Exposed project has copies of some of the just released documents. Here are highlights from HRC's analysis:

[S]ome high (low) lights from PDF page 13 of the “confidential” 2008-09 report to the NOM Board of Directors:

“The strategic goal of this project is to drive a wedge between gays and blacks—two key Democratic constituencies. Find, equip, energize and connect African American spokespeople for marriage, develop a media campaign around their objections to gay marriage as a civil right; provoke the gay marriage base into responding by denouncing these spokesmen and women as bigots…”

Another passage:

"The Latino vote in America is a key swing vote, and will be so even more so in the future, both because of demographic growth and inherent uncertainty: Will the process of assimilation to the dominant Anglo culture lead Hispanics to abandon traditional family values? We must interrupt this process of assimilation by making support for marriage a key badge of Latino identity - a symbol of resistance to inappropriate assimilation."

On PDF page 12, it talks about “sideswiping Obama,” painting him as a “social radical” and talking about “side issues” like pornography.

Rather than describe the black spokesman as bigots, I'd call them gullible suckers who have been cynically used by those who in reality hate them. Blacks really need to look at those behind "pro-family" because often ties to white supremacy groups are just below the surface. Tony Perkins at FRC is a perfect example.