The National Organization for Marriage, which contributed up to $100,000 in matching funds to the failed campaign by
Iowans For Freedom to remove Iowa Supreme Court Justice
David Wiggins from the bench, is now trying to organize a "March for Marriage" in Washington D.C. on March 26 as the Supreme Court considers arguments in both the Prop 8 and DOMA cases, which both involve gay marriage. For information about the
real DC marriage equality march, go
here.
The number of NOM facebook "likes" for its campaign is decidedly underwhelming, so it is now trying to convince people of burgeoning support by tallying the number of online
invitations it has extended
rather than the number of people who have actually committed to showing up.
One who HAS committed to NOM's march is former Southern Baptist Convention second vice-president Wiley Drake, who garnered notoriety after referring to President Obama as an
evil illegal alien and praying for him to die.
Drake
was recruited by
Allegra Herburt-Hewell, one of the organizers behind the NOM march and in her free time an employee of Robert George's American Principles Project, whose heartland tentacles include
Shane Vander Hart, who benignly refers to himself as a conservative Christian blogger.
Above (l-r): Shane Vander Hart, Robert George, President George Bush); Robert George, founder of the American Principles Project, is also a co-author, with convicted Watergate felon Charles Colson, of the Manhattan Declaration, a screed twice rejected by Apple as an iPhone app, which exhorts signers to ignore antibias protections extended by law to gays. In 2012, gay mom Janet Jenkins filed a civil RICO racketeering lawsuit against several employees of Liberty University for conspiring to kidnap her daughter, who is now somewhere in Nicaragua. The pastor involved in the case has been sentenced to 27 months in prison. The lawsuit notes that they were signatories to George's Manhattan Declaration.
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