John Jalsevac is amused:
Today I came across a video by the Human Rights Campaign “exposing” the pro-family organization the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). It has to be one of the most embarrassing and ultimately hilarious pieces of propaganda ever produced.
With the breed of creepy music, and foreboding, overstated voice-overs usually reserved for the grittiest crime shows about grisly homicides and serial killers, the Human Rights Campaign explains that while NOM would have you think that its mission is to “protect marriage” (“Ah, such a noble cause isn’t it?” says the creepy voiceover), there’s a much darker (duh-duh-duh!) purpose behind NOM.
Oh yes, the HRC has dug deep, has done its research, has snooped about in seedy bars with nothing more than a notebook, a hidden tape recorder and an instinct for a scandal; they’ve pored over the dusty records in the archives, they’ve found and interrogated anonymous sources – and they have uncovered NOM’s deep dark secret: NOM exists *gasp* to fight same-sex marriage.
In the words of HRC: “their only purpose is to deny the rights of marriage to loving and committed same-sex couples and their families.” (Well, that’s not actually true: NOM would also deny marriage to homosexual couples who can’t stand each other and aren’t committed in the least.).
Out of curiosity I immediately went to NOM’s (publicly accessible) website, and clicked on the “About us” section. And indeed, just as HRC had said, in the first sentence NOM claims that their mission is to “protect marriage.”
You have to read all the way to the second sentence to find out that NOM was founded “in response to the growing need for an organized opposition to same-sex marriage in state legislatures.”
Do you see how NOM hides its true purpose, purporting to be something that it isn’t? Can you evenbegin to grasp the level of dishonesty and depravity it takes to bury your real purpose all the way in the second sentence on your about page on your publicly accessible official website?! It takes your breath away.
But wait, there's more!
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The "NOM Exposed" website makes the following statements:
"RELIGIOUS BONDS"
"From the Mormon Church, to the Catholic Church hierarchy and Opus Dei, to right-wing Evangelicals, NOM has deep ties to religious organizations long opposed to equality."
http://nomexposed.org/the-facts/
Oh no! What an awful thing it would be if NOM had dreaded "RELIGIOUS BONDS"!
The HRC seeks to paint NOM as opposed to "equality" per se without even limiting that false accusastion to homosexual "marriage".
The website goes on to make this devastating accusation:
"NOM has deep ties to the Mormon Church, the Catholic Church hierarchy and right-wing evangelical pastors and other organizations against same-sex marriage. In fact, NOM and the Portland Catholic Archdiocese contributed 83% of the money raised in Maine’s Question 1 battle."
http://nomexposed.org/the-facts/religious-bonds/
I guess that would constitute a terrible crime against humanity if you oppose organized religion, the Catholic Church and the Mormon Church.
What we see being put out by the Human Rights Campaign on it's "NOM Exposed" website is innuendo.
Now, let's have a look at who supports the Human Rights Campaign as "Corporate Partners".
First we have that bastion of corporate responsibility, Bank of America.
"Bank of America to pay $137M, avoid conviction
Admits anti-competitive acts"
"By Jerry Seper-The Washington Times"
"Bank of America agreed on Tuesday to pay $137.3 million in restitution to federal and state agencies for its role in a conspiracy to rig bids in the municipal bond derivatives market and as a condition of its admission to a Justice Department leniency program allowing it to avoid criminal convictions and fines."
"According to the agreement, Bank of America employees engaged in illegal conduct, including bid rigging and other deceptive practices, in connection with the marketing and sale of tax-exempt municipal bond derivatives contracts."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/7/bank-of-america-to-pay-137-m-avoid-conviction/
Next, we have "Citi".
"Citi faces class charges on gender discrimination"
"As will be featured on the March 2, 2009 cover of Forbes Magazine, a group of five female former employees of Citigroup, ("Citi") have filed class charges of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") in Manhattan against Citi alleging that they were laid off in November 2008 as a result of unlawful discrimination, specifically alleging that a glass ceiling exists at Citi and that in the latest round of layoffs, lesser qualified or under-performing male employees were retained at the expense of female employees."
http://www.finextra.com/news/announcement.aspx?pressreleaseid=26201
Next we have "Deloitte".
"Deloitte Pays $210 million to Settle Adelphia Case: 45% of Total Sum"
"Deloitte & Touche LLP will end up ponying up $210 million as part of a larger $455 million amount along with a number of banks, including Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Wachovia and 35 others, which have agreed to pay to settle an investor lawsuit in the Rigas family-run bankrupt cable company, Adelphia Communications Corporation. Adelphia became bankrupt in 2002 after accounting fraud and its owners John Rigas and son Tim Rigas were criminally convicted. Earlier, in 2005, Deloitte had paid the SEC $50 million to settle claims that it had incorrectly audited Adelphia’s 2000 financials."
http://www.big4.com/news/deloitte-pays-210-million-to-settle-adelphia-case-45-of-total-sum-465
Next we have "Goldman Sachs". Need I go into detail about that one?
So while the Human Rights Campaign accuses NOM of having dreaded "RELIGIOUS BONDS" and of accepting money from churches, the HRC accepts money from the virtuous corporate elite like Bank of America, Citi, Deloitte and even Goldman Sachs. This, of course, is more morally superior than it would be to accept money from chruches which are "opposed to equality".
HRC is especially bad to me as it sends its thugs out to rate businesses and awards points to companies who provide resource groups for LGBT employees.
While companies can do that: it's a private business after all, the opposite applies, and everyone doesn't have to be forced.
I think NOM is mostly called to task for its lies and distortions, such as claiming to protect marriage. It's not protecting marriage, especially lacking a public position on legal divorce. It really just wants to stop gay people from being legitimized by having the right to marry.
Kyle: It is irrelevant what you think that NOM is mostly called to task for. What the Human Rights Campaign, through it's "NOM Exposed" website, is calling NOM to task for is quoted above.
NOM is perfectly capable of stating what it stands for and your interpretation of what NOM stands for is not needed. Are you professing to know better than NOM what NOM stands for?
Kyle, nobody is stopping gay people from having a legitimate marriage.
Some of us ARE opposed to pretending that a second-class marriage founded on gender bias is truly "equal". Separate is never equal.
Another paragon of corporate virtue which is a "Corporate Partner" of the Human Rights Campaign is Wells Fargo.
"Banks Financing Mexico Gangs Admitted in Wells Fargo Deal"
"By Michael Smith - Jun 28, 2010 9:00 PM MT"
"This was no isolated incident. Wachovia, it turns out, had made a habit of helping move money for Mexican drug smugglers. Wells Fargo & Co., which bought Wachovia in 2008, has admitted in court that its unit failed to monitor and report suspected money laundering by narcotics traffickers -- including the cash used to buy four planes that shipped a total of 22 tons of cocaine."
"The admission came in an agreement that Charlotte, North Carolina-based Wachovia struck with federal prosecutors in March, and it sheds light on the largely undocumented role of U.S. banks in contributing to the violent drug trade that has convulsed Mexico for the past four years."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-29/banks-financing-mexico-s-drug-cartels-admitted-in-wells-fargo-s-u-s-deal.html
Obviously, it is vastly morally superior to accept money from a bank which admits that it failed to adequately monitor and report suspected money laundering by narcotics traffickers than it would be to accept money from those who oppose "equality", like churches.
Then there is the esteemed "Corporate Partner" of the Human Rights Campaign, Ernst & Young LLP.
"Ernst & Young Partners Convicted of Tax Fraud
New York (May 11, 2009)"
"By WebCPA Staff"
"Two current and two former Ernst & Young partners were found guilty of tax fraud and conspiracy charges related to tax shelters."
"A Manhattan jury found the four men guilty on all counts after a two-month trial."
"Ernst & Young did not immediately respond to a request for comment."
http://www.accountingtoday.com/news/Ernst-Young-Partners-Convicted-Tax-Fraud-50430-1.html
Taking money from Ernst and Young LLP is acceptable to the Human Rights Campaign because Ernst and Young presumably haven't committed the crime, of which churches are guilty, of being opposed to "equality".
Another "Corporate Partner" of the Human Rights Campaign is Chase.
"JPMorgan Chase settles SEC influence charges for $700 million
Associated Press
In Print: Thursday, November 5, 2009"
"WASHINGTON — JPMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to a settlement worth more than $700 million over Securities and Exchange Commission charges that it made unlawful payments to friends of public officials to win municipal bond business in Jefferson County, Ala."
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/banking/article1049465.ece
The Human Rights Campaign doesn't seem to be very selective regarding who it will accept as a "Corporate Partner". As long as you have money to contrbuite, you're in, ...that is, as long as you aren't one of those morally bankrupt churches who oppose "equality".
HRC is not even correct that NOM's "only purpose is to deny the rights of marriage to loving and committed same-sex couples and their families.”
NOM has the same objective for loving and committed polygamous couples and their families.
Another illustrious "Corporate Partner" of the Human Rights Campaign is BP, better known as British Petroleum. Where do I even begin with this one! Let me just pull one out the hat at random.
"BP's Rap Sheet: British Petroleum Is a Multiply-convicted Felon"
"June 2, 2010 • 8:24AM"
"In Oct. 2007, BP pled guilty to a felony involving safety violations in connection with the March 2005 explosion at its Texas City refinery, in which 15 were killed and hundreds more injured. The plea included a $50 million fine and three years' probation — still in effect. The Occupational Health and Safety Administration assessed BP the largest fine in OSHA history — $87 million — after inspectors found 270 work safety violations that had been previously cited but not fixed, and 439 new violations, at the Texas City refinery. According to BP's own statement, one of the conditions of probation was compliance with the OSHA settlement agreement. BP acknowledged that it had paid $1.6 billion in compensation to victims of the explosion."
http://www.larouchepac.com/node/14673
So I guess that deaths are acceptable to the Human Rights Campaign but the idea of accepting donations from churches is simply too immoral for them to bear. The highest human right is the right to life itself.
Don - I thought guilty by association was not something that we lived by in the U.S.? If it is then I would like to take the time to point out all the associations that Christians around the U.S. have.
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4817067
You cannot control the behavior of those that you interact with - you can only choose to limit your association with them in the future. Stop attacking based on those surrounding and start coming up with some valid rhetoric. Until then it just looks as though you like to post, not really have something to say.
Leslie:
Let me see if I have this right. What I am doing is guilt by association but what the Human Rights Campaign is doing on it's "NOM Exposed" website is not guilt by association. That's called a "double standard".
What would you know about having something to say, Leslie?
Moving right along, let's take a look at another "Corporate Partner" of the Human Rights Campaign, Nike.
"Nike settles discrimination suit"
"Deal covers 400 black employees in Chicago"
"July 31, 2007|By Ameet Sachdev, Tribune staff reporter and Tribune staff reporter Barbara Rose contributed to this report."
"Nike Inc. has agreed to pay $7.6 million to settle a race discrimination lawsuit by current and former African-American employees of its Niketown store on Michigan Avenue."
"The class-action settlement, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Chicago, covers about 400 African-American workers employed from Dec. 17, 1999, through the present."
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007-07-31/business/0707300306_1_african-american-employees-hired-african-americans-class-action
I don't get it. The Human Rights Campaign, on it's "NOM Exposed" website, says that NOM has deep ties to religious organizations long opposed to equality. I guess that businesses that don't support equality in their actions are just fine as HRC contributors, it's only religious organizations allegedly associated with NOM who are held to the HRC's high standards for "equality".
Another Human Rights Campaign "Corporate Partner" is Morgan Stanley. Let's see what they have been up to.
"Morgan Stanley Settles Sex-Bias Suit."
"By Peter Lattman"
"Morgan Stanley set up a $46 million pool to settle a sex-discrimination lawsuit and said it would enact new policies to help women succeed as financial advisers. The settlement, if approved, would be the second big sex-discrimination settlement struck by the bank in recent years. In 2004 it agreed to pay $54 million to settle accusations that it denied women equal pay and promotions in its investment bank."
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/04/25/morgan-stanley-settles-sex-bias-suit/
TWO big sex-discrimination settlements? I wonder how the Human Rights Campaign could manage to get by Morgan Stanley's lack of equality in order to accept their contribution?
Waste Management is another Human Rights Campaign "Corporate Partner".
"Waste Management Exec Found Guilty"
"SEC alleged that the former finance executive had filed false documents and engaged in insider trading."
"Stephen Taub - CFO.com | US
February 6, 2006"
"A former chief accounting officer of Waste Management Inc., Bruce Snyder Jr., has been found guilty of civil charges of filing false regulatory documents and insider trading, according to the Houston Chronicle."
"In 2003, two other former Waste Management executives — president and chief operating officer Rodney R. Proto and chief financial officer Earl E. DeFrates — settled charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC had alleged that they engaged in insider trading in the waste hauler's stock and that they made public statements that they knew, or were reckless in not knowing, were materially false or misleading."
http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/5489727?f=related
My goodness, what a rogue's gallery of "Corporate Partners" for an organization with a name as presumptuous as the "Human Rights Campaign"!
But we have to look at the accusations made by the "NOM Exposed" website about NOM so that we can put things in perspective.
"RELIGIOUS BONDS"
"From the Mormon Church, to the Catholic Church hierarchy and Opus Dei, to right-wing Evangelicals, NOM has deep ties to religious organizations long opposed to equality."
http://nomexposed.org/the-facts/
"NOM has deep ties to the Mormon Church, the Catholic Church hierarchy and right-wing evangelical pastors and other organizations against same-sex marriage. In fact, NOM and the Portland Catholic Archdiocese contributed 83% of the money raised in Maine’s Question 1 battle."
http://nomexposed.org/the-facts/religious-bonds/
These accusations of dastardly doings on the part of NOM pale into insignificance compared with the trangressions of the Human Rights Campaign's "Corporate Partners".
Brian and Maggie, isn't it about time for an "HRC Exposed" website?
But nothing will ever beat the Gathering Storm. Don't worry NOM, nobody will steal your...um... thunder. You're still responsible for the most ridiculously amusing piece of propaganda - for anything - ever.
The best part is that Life Site News is calling someone else's site laughable. Breaking news from Life Site: Dead birds falling from sky result of God's anger over repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell,
Yes, Tim, it is true that an organization which calls itself the "Human Rights Campaign" really DOES take money from Citi!
"Former Citi Banker Indicted on Fraud Charges"
"A former Citigroup investment banker accused of passing on insider information about biotech mergers to his brother has been indicted by a federal grand jury in San Francisco."
"The former Citigroup executive, Maher Fayez Kara, his brother, Mounir Kara, and Emile Jilwan were charged with securities fraud and conspiracy in a 38-count indictment unsealed Thursday. All three men surrendered to the F.B.I. and were released on $100,000 bond."
"The Securities and Exchange Commission has also filed civil lawsuits against the three men and five others, accusing them of engaging in a wide-ranging $6 million insider-trading scheme throughout California and the Midwest."
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/former-citigroup-banker-indicted-on-fraud-charges/
Then we have the number one "Corporate Partner" of the Human Rights Campaign, American Airlines.
"American Airlines"
"HRC's longest existing sponsor!"
"HRC is proud to have American Airlines as its Official Airline"
http://www.hrc.org/about_us/partners.asp
What has American Airlines been up to?
"American Air Faces Record $24.2 Million Fine for 2008 Maintenance Lapses"
"By John Hughes and Mary Schlangenstein - Aug 26, 2010 1:44 PM MT"
"AMR Corp.’s American Airlines faces a record $24.2 million fine for maintenance lapses that grounded its Boeing Co. MD-80s in 2008, stranding 360,000 passengers, the Federal Aviation Administration said today."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-26/amr-faces-24-million-faa-fine-for-2008-maintenance-lapses-on-md-80-planes.html
Don, I love you man. You do a great job of exposing the idiots that post against us and of the morally bankrupt HRC organization. The idiots and the HRC want a world of no Christians. Let us see what kind of world that would be. I think you did a great job of showing how that would be like. It would be a world very much like the days of Noah. We all know how God dealt with that world
Thank you very much, John K. Noe. Greatly appreciated.
As I always say to my wife, if something good comes out of me, give thanks to God, because He is the source of all good.