In the wake of revelations about the National Organization for Marriage’s racial wedge strategy, the pro-LGBT coalition of Catholics, Equally Blessed, is calling on the Church and the Knights of Columbus to sever ties with the organization.
NOM’s anti-gay-marriage “Not a Civil Right” project included a plan to “to drive a wedge between gays and blacks – two key Democratic constituencies.” The document made clear a plan to target Latinos as well, to ”interrupt the process of assimilation” to pro-gay values and make “support for marriage a key badge of Latino identity.” The strategy included a plan to “expose Obama as a social radical.”
The stategy document, uncovered by the Human Rights Campaign earlier this week, noted that NOM would use its “close relationships with Catholic bishops to equip, energize, and moralize Catholic priests on the marriage issue.”
According to the HRC, NOM has received financial and other backing from the Knights of Columbus, Catholic dioceses, and bishops.
Equally Blessed has started a campaign on Twitter, #CatholicNoToNOM, calling on these groups to disassociate themselves from NOM.
- Religion Dispatches.
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“drive a wedge between gays and blacks” is nasty brutal homophobia and racism in action and we should describe plainly what the US National Organisation for Marriage and their Catholic Church bedmates really intend.
It means to ‘turn them against each other’, put lesbian, bisexuals and gay men and African Americans and Latinos/as head to head in conflict. It’s a divide and rule strategy.
Even more shockingly money and other resources for this are coming from the Catholic Knights of Columbus, Catholic dioceses, and Bishops.That’s why Equally Blessed is demanding the Church and Knights of St Columbus cut all links with the National Organisation for Marriage.The Catholic hierarchy in the USA fights very dirty on equal marriage and on child abuse (it is also trying to bankrupt and close down SNAP, the organisation supporting clerical abuse survivors) and the Church and Bishops don’t seem to care who they get into bed with. It stinks.