FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JULY 14, 2009
CONTACT: Elizabeth Ray, x130 or Mary Beth Hutchins, x105 at 703-683-5004
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MARRIAGE: “OPEN FOR BUSINESS IN OUR NATION’S CAPITAL”
(Washington, DC) - The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) opened its Washington, D.C. office this week continuing its national defense of the institution of marriage.
“The National Organization for Marriage has emerged as the nation’s only major national grassroots organization dedicated to protecting marriage,” notes Maggie Gallagher, president and founder of NOM.
One of NOM’s chief aims in Washington is to stop any attempt to repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that may come through the courts or lobbying of Congress.
“When the battle was to get a marriage amendment on the ballot in California, NOM was there to help. When Tim Gill and his friends decided to push gay marriage bills through legislatures blue states in the northeast, NOM lead the fight, helping to stop gay marriage in New York, working to overturn gay marriage in Maine, and helping win substantive religious liberty protections in Vermont and Connecticut,” said Brian Brown, NOM’s executive director, “Now gay marriage advocates are pushing Obama for the penultimate prize: repealing the federal Defense of Marriage Act, the only national law that protects marriage. We felt NOM needed to be here in D.C. to make the voice of the majority heard.”
“Three recent polls confirm that a strong majority of Americans continue to oppose gay marriage, despite the recent push for gay marriage in Iowa and the northeast. Strong majorities of Republicans and independents oppose gay marriage according to the latest Pew poll,” notes Gallagher. “Even 41 percent of Democrats oppose gay marriage. Our challenge—and it’s an exciting one—is to build an organization that helps translate public opinion into an effective political force, one that help the views of ordinary Americans get heard here on Capitol Hill and across the country.”
Pew Poll
http://people-press.org/report/?pageid=1519
Gallup Poll
http://www.gallup.com/poll/118378/Majority-Americans-Continue-Oppose-Gay-Marriage.aspx
CBS New/NYT poll
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/06/17/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5094597.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/poll_sotomayor_061709.pdf
NOM’s mission is protecting marriage and the faith communities that sustain it. It is the only single-issue grassroots activist organization that is working to protect marriage in New York, New Jersey, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Iowa, in addition to other states. To learn more about NOM, visit www.nationformarriage.org.
To schedule an interview with Maggie Gallagher, President, or Brian Brown, Executive Director, for the National Organization for Marriage, please contact Elizabeth Ray, eray@crcpublicrelations.com, (x130) or Mary Beth Hutchins, mhutchins@crcpublicrelations.com, (x105) at 703-683-5004.
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