Wedge document blacks and gays
The leading opponents of homosexual marriage planned to defeat campaigns for gay marriage by "fanning the hostility" between black voters from gay voters and by casting President Obama as a radical foe of marriage, according to confidential documents made public in a Maine court today.
The documents, circulated by the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign, are marked "confidential" and detail the internal strategy of the National Organization for Marriage.
“The strategic goal of this project is to cruise a wedge between gays and blacks—two key Democratic constituencies," says an internal report on 2008 and 2009 campaigns, in a section titled the "Not A Civil Right Project."
"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," advises the document, which is a road map to the successful campaign against same-sex marriage in California.
The document also targets Hispanic voters, whom conservatives contain long hoped would attach the backlash against same-sex attracted rights.
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Read The Leaked Anti-Gay Marriage Memo Whose Authors Wanted To 'Drive A Wedge Between Gays And Blacks'
Late Monday overnight, the Human Rights Campaign released confidential strategic memos from the National Group for Marriage, the nation’s leading group advocating against gay marriage.
The memos, from 2009, detail the group’s overall strategy to combat proponents of same-sex marriage. The documents were released as part of a court order in Maine, where the state is investigating NOM’s campaign finances.
“Nothing beats hearing from the horse’s mouth exactly how callous and extremist this group really is,” HRC President Joe Solmonese said in a statement.
According to NBC News/Wall Street Journal polls, same-sex marriage has gathered more support over the last three years among an increasingly accepting public. In the latest poll conducted from slow February through early Rally, support has just about flip-flopped in the last three years. A majority of Americans – 49 percent – now favor same-sex marriage, while 40 percent oppose.
A preview of the memos: one of the group’s strategies was to “drive a wedge between gays and bla
The Wedge Document
(Note - This is the text of the Discovery Institute's "Wedge Document," prepared in 1998. It lays out "the Wedge strategy" by which the newly-formed Center for Renewal of Science and Culture would promote "intelligent design" creationism.)
THE WEDGE
CENTER FOR THE RENEWAL OF SCIENCE & CULTURE
INTRODUCTION
The proposition that human beings are created in the image of God is one of the bedrock principles on which Western civilization was built. Its power can be detected in most, if not all, of the West's greatest achievements, including spokesperson democracy, human rights, free enterprise, and progress in the arts and sciences.
Yet a little over a century ago, this cardinal thought came under wholesale attack by intellectuals drawing on the discoveries of contemporary science. Debunking the traditional conceptions of both God and man, thinkers such as Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud portrayed humans not as moral and spiritual beings, but as animals or machines who inhabited a universe ruled by purely impersonal forces and whose action and very thoughts were dictated by the unbending forces of biology, connection, and environment. Thi
Ostensibly,theNational Organization for Marriage has been fighting for years now to preserve the idea that marriage is between one man and one woman, waging campaigns and devoting time and money to promote anti-gay initiatives and defeat ones aimed at strengthening lgbtq+ relationships and affirming the humanity of gays. The Washington Post once ran a profile of NOM'S Brian Brown, telling its readers that he is someone to watch, because he is a sane, likable, nice guy, and that NOM runs a "reasonable" campaign:
Brown is confident that if people catch his message, they will believe it. "People already believe it," he says, "but the issue is so deep-seated that they've never had to make an argument for it. Now we have to give people the language to do that." Construct talking points. Help them see.
NOM was put on a hate-group watch-list when the Southern Poverty Regulation Center named several anti-gay organizations as hate groups due to their rhetoric and tactics.
Now, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has obtained a lot of documents marked "confidential" that reveal what we contain known -- and what the media have refused to call out -- all along. Their plan for long-term gains i
Divisive National Organization for Marriage strategy exposed in secret memos using race as wedge
March 27, 2012
Following the let go of internal strategy memos of the so-called National Organization for Marriage (NOM), which contact for the exploit of race as a means of impeding the independence to marry for same-sex couples, Release to Marry issued the following remark by founder and President Evan Wolfson:
“In its anti-gay crusade to block the freedom to marry, NOM has spent years productive to drive wedges within communities across the nation, all the while claiming it does not ’hate’ anyone, male lover or non-gay. Now exposure of NOM’s own strategy memos confirms that NOM will stop at nothing to thrust its agenda, pitting American against American, minority against minority, family members against family members.
“NOM’s wedge-strategy memos detail its campaign to funnel capital to a handful of African-American clergy in order to attack gay couples and, appallingly, discredit the strong and clear voice of those African-American civil rights champions, such as John Lewis, Julian Bond, and Coretta Scott King, w