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NOM accuses Human Rights Campaign of stealing tax returns in effort to deflect “race baiting strategies”

 
The National Organization for Marriage claims either Human Rights Campaign or an IRS official broke the law by releasing and disseminating the hateful group’s 2008 tax returns listing their major donors, including Mitt Romney. Now NOM president Brian Brown is floating the threat of a federal investigation.

“The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), today demanded a federal investigation of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to determine who was responsible for releasing NOM’s confidential federal tax return information to the Huffington Post,” the group wrote on their blog.

From Brian Brown:

It appears that someone with either the IRS or the HRC may have committed a federal crime by illegally obtaining and then releasing a confidential tax return of the National Organization for Marriage.

It’s clear that the tax return was stolen, either from NOM or from the government. The Huffington Post article says that HRC claimed they received the document from a ‘whistleblower.’ But the term ‘whistleblower’ is completely inapt. We’re talking about a criminal who has stolen confidential tax return information. We demand to know who this criminal is, whether they work for the HRC or the IRS, and how they obtained confidential tax information filed only with the US government.”

I would like to know what the HRC knew and when did they know it. It certainly appears that either the HRC was involved in illegally obtaining this tax return themselves, or they worked with a criminal who stole it from NOM or the IRS. Either way, it appears that a federal crime may have been committed.

Yes, Brian. The Human Rights Campaign broke into your “offices” and stole the documents and then leaked the docs to themselves. Santa Claus kept watch while the Easter Bunny drove the getaway car.

But great way to deflect from the issue of your organization’s divisive race baiting strategies.

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Pew Poll: Majority of Latinos accepting of homosexuality

On the issue of whether homosexuality should be accepted by society, a majority — 59 percent — say that it should. Just 30 percent told pollsters it should be discouraged.

Those numbers line up with the general U.S. public, with 58 percent saying homosexuality should be accepted, and 33 percent saying it should be discouraged.

There is a slight difference by immigrant generation: 53 percent of immigrant Hispanics say it should be accepted, and it jumps to 68 percent among second-generation Hispanics. Like the general public, more Hispanics who are younger say homosexuality should be accepted, with 69 percent of 18- to-29-year-olds and 60 percent of 30- to-49-year-olds telling pollsters that society should not discourage it.

The poll surveyed 1,220 Latino adults Nov. 9-Dec. 7, 2011. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.59 percentage points.

Read more at Politico

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Gallup poll: President Obama leads Romney in swing states 48%-39%

 

President Barack Obama has expanded his lead over Mitt Romney to nine points among independents in swing states, according to a recent Gallup poll.

The president now leads the former Massachusetts governor 48 percent to 39 percent. Among the same group in February, Obama lead Romney 49 percent to 43 percent.

“The movement toward Obama is essentially due to independents’ changing preferences, because Democrats’ and Republicans’ preferences have been highly stable,” Gallup said in a release accompanying the survey results.

The poll was taken between March 20th and 26th of voters in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

Overall, the president leads Romney in those states 51 percent to 42 percent.

Independents and those swing states are the place to look kids.  Don’t worry about California, New York, Texas or Tennessee – we know how those will go.  Watch the swing states and the independents in those states.

Just saying….

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Marriage equality supporters send giant ‘thank you’ to Starbucks

A coalition of supporters for same-sex marriage says it will deliver a giant “thank-you” card to Starbucks headquarters in Seattle this afternoon with more than 650,000 signatures.

The group headed by SumOfUs.org, MoveOn.org and Washington United for Marriage said it started the campaign to support the company after it was attacked by an anti-same-sex marriage group, the National Organization of Marriage.

That group set up the Dump Starbucks webpage, which currently reports 25,862 “pledges.”

Let’s look at those numbers again, shall we? Supporting equality – 650,000; anti-gay hater mongers – 25,862.

Ok, now that we’ve crunched the numbers…

“We are urging customers across the globe to ‘Dump Starbucks’ because it has taken a corporate-wide position that the definition of marriage between one man and one woman should be eliminated and that same-sex marriage should become equally ‘normal’. As such, Starbucks has deeply offended at least half its US customers, and the vast majority of its international customers,” the site declaims.

CEO Howard Schultz defended the company’s stance during a company shareholder meeting in March, saying the decision was made “in our view, through the lens of humanity, and being the kind of company that embraces diversity.”

“We’ve been stunned by the passionate response to ‘Thank Starbucks’ – our most viral campaign ever,” Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, executive director for SumofUs.org said in a press release.

“We’ve seen in our campaigns that consumers expect corporations to do right by their workers and by their community. We hope that this overwhelming show of support for Starbucks for supporting gay rights will inspire other corporations to keep making similar public statements.”

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Stephen Colbert on Rick Santorum and teaching history in California

Rick Santorum recently “read something out of California” that indicated how bad colleges there have gotten. They don’t even teach American history anymore, Santorum asserted.

“That is an outrage,” Stephen Colbert said on Tuesday. “The only thing that would be more outrageous is if this were true.”

Well, it’s not. Public colleges in California do offer degrees in American history. Well, the University of California in San Francisco doesn’t — but it happens to be a medical school. Santorum just pulled that fact out of his … heart, Colbert said.

“I certainly hope that when Santorum moves on to the California primary June 5, he does not get an intestinal blockage,” Colbert added. “Because I don’t think the doctors out there are as qualified as Santorum to pull things out of his ass.”

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Prop 5 rejected by Anchorage voters

With 90 percent of precincts reporting, it appears that 58 percent of Anchorage voters rejected Proposition Five a measure that would have ensured protections for LGBT people.

According to the Anchorage Daily News, the “equal rights ordinance that was far and away the most controversial and emotional component of this spring’s election.”

Apparently, many of the people who voted no on the measure were told that they could register on the same day, which is incorrect (you need to register 30 days prior), so many of those votes could get invalidated.  Stay tuned for a final vote tally.

Read more at Queerty

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Just so you know these people really exist: Paul Madore

“The only reason why the number of supporters for same sex ‘marriage’ may be increasing is because people are sick and tired. Homosexuals have made people sick and tired. Homosexuals have absolutely nothing good to contribute to family life, which is what marriage is all about. A sterile union (between same sex couples) is never in need of marriage, and has nothing good to contribute to marriage or family life. Absolutely nothing.”
– Maine anti-gay activist Paul Madore, in a press release announcing the formation of No Special Rights PAC.
(from JMG)