Conservative Group So Terrified of Gay Republicans They’re Endorsing Democrats

Democratic partisans are probably concerned at
what might happen if the Republicans get over and get past its
anti-gay history (though they’ll never actually admit it). Just
think of the votes they might lose! Fortunately for them, a
political organization has been spending thousands to help out the
Democrats in San Diego and Massachusetts to try to stop a couple of
gay Republicans from getting voted into office. That group is the
well-known anti-gay National Organization for Marriage (NOM).

Desperate for some sort of win—any sort of win—as the entire
reason for their existence (stopping same-sex marriage recognition)
slips further and further out of their grasp, they are
spending thousands on robocalls in opposition to the
congressional candidacies of Carl DeMaio in San Diego and Richard
Tisei in Massachusetts. Mind you, both of the these men’s
Democratic opponents, Rep. Scott
Peters and
Seth Moulton, also support same-sex marriage recognition
(Moulton even has a gay brother), but at least they’re not a couple
of filthy homos, I guess is the message.

Actually, the message from NOM is that—given the
Republican control of the House of Representative (and there’s no
chance of that changing in this election)—voting DeMaio and Tisei
into office rather than pro-gay heterosexual Democrats is worse
because the Republicans actually will have power. Here’s
what NOM is saying when
it encourages voters to select traditional progressive Moulton over
business-friendly moderate Republican Tisei:

The Republican party states clearly in its platform that
marriage is the union of one man and one woman; Tisei, according to
the hopes of his supporters, would work to undermine and change
this platform conviction from within the party itself.

On the other hand, Tisei’s opponent, Seth Moulton, is no better
than Tisei on the issues. But as a Democrat in a House controlled
by Republicans, Moulton wouldn’t be able to impact anything.
Furthermore, we could defeat him in two years. Tisei, however,
as a Republican within a Republican-controlled House of
Representatives, would be in a position to do great damage to the
integrity of the party’s platform and the pro-life and pro-family
policies for which the party stands!

Italics in the original. Moulton is obviously
rejecting NOM’s support:

“Seth Moulton fundamentally disagrees with everything NOM stands
for and has long said that equality is the civil rights fight of
our generation,” said Carrie Rankin, Moulton’s communications
director. “Fighting against groups, like NOM, that deny equality as
a basic human right will be a priority of Seth’s in Congress.”
Rankin noted that Moulton has a gay brother and Moulton has said,
“It’s fundamentally wrong that he and I don’t share the same rights
just because of who he is.”

If Tisei and DeMaio help kick any anti-gay planks out of the
Republican Party’s national platform, NOM is going to end up
completely marginalized. Both races, though, are extremely close in
the polls.
DeMaio and
Tisei both barely have the edge in recent polls and both races
are classified as toss-ups. I’ll be keeping an eye out on these two
battles come Tuesday.