NOM Tour Tracker: LGBT families in Maine and New York tell their stories

Posted on Jul 20, 2010 at 03:45 pm

"NOM Tour Tracker", a partnership between Freedom to Marry and Courage Campaign, continues to track Freedom to Marry's Summer for Marriage tour.

In this post, videos from families who support marriage equality in Maine and New York.

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Freedom to Marry’s “Summer for Marriage” has begun

Posted on Jul 16, 2010 at 09:05 am

On Wednesday, Freedom to Marry teamed up with local, state, and national equality organizations to launch “Summer for Marriage”, a series of pro-marriage events across the country in July and August. The tour was launched to counter the anti-gay bus tour sponsored by National Organization for Marry (NOM).

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Maine Commission: NOM probe to continue

Posted on Jun 28, 2010 at 01:20 pm

The Maine Ethics Commission on Thursday rejected the National Organization for Marriage’s latest attempt to block an investigation of the group, adding yet another legal twist to a case that has been going since last October.

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Federal Appeals Court rules NOM must turn over donor names

Posted on Jun 10, 2010 at 03:00 pm

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has been ordered by the 1st District federal court of appeals in Boston to provide Maine state election officials with information about the group’s donors.

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Out candidates win from California to Maine

Posted on Jun 10, 2010 at 01:25 pm

Openly LGBT candidates won political races literally from coast to coast on Tuesday, with key wins in California, Montana and Maine.

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Federal magistrate urges disclosure of donors who supported campaign to end freedom to marry

Posted on May 28, 2010 at 08:15 am

A federal magistrate judge has recommended that state officials be given information about donors who helped finance a successful campaign to repeal Maine's marriage equality law.

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Judge rules in Maine freedom to marry case

Posted on May 25, 2010 at 07:30 pm

U.S. Magistrate Judge John Rich III said in a document dated Sunday that the National Organization for Marriage, which contributed $1.9 million to the campaign to repeal Maine's marriage equality law, should turn over fundraising documents dating back to Jan. 1, 2009, to the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices.

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Maine Diocese penalizes Homeless Aid Group for supporting Marriage Equality

Posted on Mar 24, 2010 at 10:43 am

A social service agency's support for the freedom to marry has cost it local and national funding from the Catholic Church's anti-poverty program.

Preble Street's Homeless Voices for Justice program has lost $17,400 this year and will lose $33,000 that it expected for its next fiscal year.

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Maine Commission’s Investigation into NOM Fundraising Practices continues

Posted on Mar 04, 2010 at 11:27 am

Nearly four months after Maine voters approved a referendum that overturned their state’s law that had allowed gays and lesbians to marry, the National Organization for Marriage continues to stonewall requests for information from a commission investigating its contributions to the successful campaign.

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Going After the “Movable Middle” on the Freedom to Marry

Posted on Mar 01, 2010 at 12:44 pm

Third Way, a Washington DC based think tank, conducted a poll of 600 Maine voters right after Question One passed in November and identified some important trends among the movable middle swing voters.

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