Home About Chat Users Issues Party Candidates Polling Firms Media News Polls Calendar Key Races United States President Senate House Governors International

New User Account
"A comprehensive, collaborative elections resource." 
Email: Password:

  Maggie Gallagher’s NOM Strategist Defects, Comes Out For Marriage Equality
NEWS DETAILS
Parent(s) Issue 
ContributorHomegrown Democrat 
Last EditedHomegrown Democrat  Apr 10, 2011 09:43am
Logged 0
CategoryGeneral
AuthorDavid Badash
News DateFriday, April 8, 2011 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionA strategist for Maggie Gallagher’s National Organization For Marriage (NOM), who has previously made a career out of anti-gay hatred and homophobic statements, has defected from NOM, coming out in support of full civil marriage equality. “I now support full marriage equality,” says Louis Marinelli, a strategist involved in developing NOM’s grassroot campaigns and online messaging. NOM is perhaps the nation’s best-known anti-marriage equality organization. Gallagher did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In an exclusive and extensive interview with Jeremy Hooper, founder and editor of Good As You, “Exposure to NOM could lead to unintended side effects,” Marinelli delivers well-considered reasoning for his change of heart, and while he isn’t supporting the LGBT community in full, he sees same-sex civil marriage as simply a matter of civil rights and himself as “a supporter of civil marriage equality.” Marinelli says, “I agree that what the gay community are fighting for are their civil rights.”

Marinelli’s path to a well-considered, thoughtful, introspective rational mode of thinking began last summer during NOM’s Summer of Marriage tour. Hooper notes, “the 2010 summer tour always seemed at least partially designed by Louis, considering how we first learned of the idea not from NOM, but rather from Louis himself, who tweeted … months before NOM ever announced any sort of official endeavor,” and adds, the “Summer Marriage tour opened his eyes!”
Share
ArticleRead Full Article

NEWS
Date Category Headline Article Contributor

DISCUSSION