2M4M, or The Anti-NOM

[filkertom]

On the heels of teabagging, the Rachel Maddow vids from last week, and AmazonFail... we have something better.

Two Men For Marriage.

james_the_evil1 tells us all about it:

As some of you may be aware, well known "conservative," columnist, and hard-core bigot Maggie Gallagher runs an organization known as "NOM." Contrary to the name, "NOM" is not for kittehs eating cheezburgers but in fact stands for "National Organization for Marriage." Their campaign uses many of the traditional stupid arguments to "fight" gay marriage. With the victories for gay marriage in Iowa and Vermont in recent weeks the NOM people decided they needed to "step it up" a notch and launch a NEW branded campaign to "save" marriage.

However, in a STUNNING show of ignorance the NOM folks decided to name their campaign "Two Million For Marriage" and IN THEIR OWN BRANDING call it "2M4M." Yes, that's right, they named their anti-gay initiative with the acronym for "2 men for male," a personal ad code for a gay couple seeking a third for threesomes. This's invited a bunch of scorn in the media, alongside what's being directed at other conservatives for calling their "anti taxes" groups "teabaggers," again missing out on the sexual context.

More to the point, and this is how YOU can help, they COMPLETELY failed to snatch up ANY of the internet real-estate related to the name!!!! So cambler bought http://www.2M4M.org and set it up as an ANTI-NOM site with education and facts to counter NOM's bigotry & fearmongering. A friend of his set up an LJ com for it, 2m4m, and Chris put it on Twitter http://twitter.com/2m4m. A person or persons unknown also set up a blogspot for it: http://2m4m.blogspot.com/ with some content from the 2M4M site.

This is where YOU GUYS come in... help us spread the word! We need to socialize http://www.2M4M.org so when people search for it they find IT instead of NOM's bigotry. So please visit http://www.2M4M.org, DIGG it, Delicious it, blog about it, link to it, pass it on to your friends, follow it on Twitter (it already has more followers than the official NOM Tweet), make it the defining destination. Right now Googling 2M4M brings up this site and not NOM's, and we'd like to keep it that way. Please help?

Comments

[vulpine137.livejournal.com]

*falls over laughing*

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

Have them play the NomNom song on repeat as a background sound, put up some real NOM stuff and have lots of broken links. No since letting people who are really on their side feel like they want anything to do with their website, yes?

[james-the-evil1.livejournal.com]

Thanks for helping us spread the word, Tom. :-) Chris had a real flash of genius to do this and it's all his hard work, I'm just happy to help let people know about it.

[anasteuart.livejournal.com]

I reposted this in my LJ. (This one is public; I had to friends-lock my personal one.)

[james-the-evil1.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!

[mimiheart.livejournal.com]

Somewhat related, apparently according to NOM (http://www.nationformarriage.org/site/c.omL2KeN0LzH/b.3480051/k.6A4D/Why_Marriage_Matters.htm), there are no Spanish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephardi_Jews) speaking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_Jew) Jews (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Latin_America).

I'm not giving them brain points.

[james-the-evil1.livejournal.com]

I'm a big fan of this "WTF" non sequitir from their "talking points" (http://www.nationformarriage.org/site/c.omL2KeN0LzH/b.4475595/k.566A/Marriage_Talking_Points.htm) page:

"1. Are you a bigot? “Why do you want to take away people’s rights?”
“Isn’t it wrong to write discrimination into the constitution?”

A: “Do you really believe people like me who believe mothers and fathers both matter to kids are like bigots and racists? I think that’s pretty offensive, don’t you? Particularly to the 60 percent of African-Americans who oppose same-sex marriage. Marriage as the union of husband and wife isn’t new; it’s not taking away anyone’s rights. It’s common sense.”

Seriously... basically they're saying "If you call us bigots for hating gays & wanting to deny them their rights then YOU'RE a bigot because you hate blck people."

Uh... no. Logic fail.

[mimiheart.livejournal.com]

Jam tomorrow, jam yesterday, but never jam today. So there! HA! I win. It's offensive to black people and common sense... oh wait. I mean. Yeah.

[quetz.livejournal.com]

Taken directly from http://derailingfordummies.com/

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

What about the African Americans who espouse female genital mutilation?

Don't get many whites doing that....

[argonel.livejournal.com]

I know nothing about NOM, but the conservatives I know knew all about the sexual subtext in the teabag protests.

[james-the-evil1.livejournal.com]

Who knows, maybe they were trying to be ironical using gay sex code for their anti-gay hate.

[batyatoon]

You may be amused by this.

[jannyblue.livejournal.com]

Someone's told Dan Savage about this... see the comments.

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/04/10/successful-2m4m-ads-often-lead-to-teabaggings

If they hadn't, I probably would have.