Written: 3/31/2012

The Internet and the media has exploded with the fact that, surprise, NOM is a bigoted organization!

Some of their internal memos were leaked, revealing part of their strategy to be driving a wedge between African Americans and gays:

The strategic goal of this project is to drive a wedge between gays and blacks – two key democratic constituencies. We aim to find, equip, energize and connect African American spokespeople for marriage; to develop a media campaign around their objections to gay marriage as a civil right; and to provoke the gay marriage base into responding by denouncing these spokesmen and women as bigots. No politician wants to take up and push an issue that splits the base of the party. Fanning the hostility raised in the wake of Prop 8 is key…

NOM also included in their strategy, hiring dumb, pretty celebrities to be spokespeople.

AmericaBlog follows up, wondering who saw this plan, and then decided to fund them.  We sadly, may never know, even though on many occasions, NOM has been ordered by the courts to follow campaign finance laws, they still refused to disclose their donors.

The Onion follows up with some great pieces of satire as well, make sure to check it out.

Rob has an amazing piece, please go and take the time to read it, it breaks down NOMs lies and puts out so succinctly some of the details of this whole situation.

All my best,

The King of Spades

Written: 3/31/2012

I’m fairly certain that this will be my friends when I come out, instead of really talking about me coming out, instead talking about CSS, design and typography.

Check out the story here.

All my best,

The King of Spades

Written: 3/12/2012

The Good Man Project has an amazing piece up about intolerance.  So much rang true with me.  A few bits:

I was afraid of what might happen if I did come out. What if it all went pear-shaped and we couldn’t work together anymore? I was spending the majority of my time with these people; if we didn’t get along it would make the work environment insufferable.

When I think back on it, I always feel resentment toward my co-workers for making me feel like I needed to hide who I was.

I let my own assumptions about conservatives affect the way I handled the situation

From the first statement, I know what will happen if I come out, I’ll lose my job.  Although it’s interesting to see another perspective. 

Yeah, the second statement rings really true.  I really hold ill feelings towards the situation I’m stuck in, and I’m always afraid that that will spill over to individual people.  Yes, they often do things that offend me, and bad-mouth the LGBT community.  I tend to try to push those feelings down because I have to work with these people, but I hold so much resentment and anger inside.

And on the flip side of that, I do have to remember that these are people too, people that I’ve probably angered.  And overall, even though they all have their idiosyncrasies, we all work well together.

It’s a tough balance, and I’m tired of walking it.

All my best,

The King of Spades