Comments on: NOM’s fantasyland poll

By: Scott Rose

Scott Rose — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:59:43 +0000

When were Maggie Gallagher or Robert George “once thoughtful” people? In the 90s, Gallagher published a column saying that she was “unwilling” to live in a country that gives rights to homosexuals. Robert George has made an entire career out of being a virulent anti-gay bigot. That he continues to be based at Princeton University, publishing and pushing anti-gay lies with an Ivy League university’s name attached to the published lies should be considered an obscenity. NOM/Robert George now are marketing an “expanded” version of his hate speech essay “What is Marriage?” though worldwide professional anthropological associations have already condemned its slighting of gay people in history as inaccurate and unscholarly. It is the Princeton Board of Trustees who bear the accountability for permitting anti-gay lies to be promulgated under their university’s name. The Witherspoon Institute is housed right on the Princeton campus and is a ground zero of anti-gay hatred and propaganda. Witherspoon president Luis Tellez, who is a NOM board member, attracts an endless flow of anti-gay-rights, religious right wing dollars to Princeton, and in exchange, the Princeton Trustees look the other way when Witherspoon-associated Princetonians publish anti-gay lies with the Princeton name attached. Professional scholarship is not an op-ed, but Princeton has whored itself out to this cabal of anti-gay bigots. The notorious Regnerus study was organized by Witherspoon; Witherspoon program director Brad Wilcox recruited Regnerus and then collaborated with him on the booby-trapped study design. (Wilcox also is a member of Princeton’s James Madison Society). Wilcox’s collaboration with Regnerus on study design has been documented to the public for over 6 weeks, but Regnerus and Witherspoon continue lying to the public, saying that no funding agency representatives were consulted on study design. Wilcox is a member of the Princeton community, lying to the public about a supposed scientific endeavor.

By: Markanthony

Markanthony — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:38:09 +0000

Brain Brown apparently highlighted the poll during a conference call with NOM’s donors.

http://americanindependent.com/217901/audio-national-organization-for-marriage-wants-starbucks-to-pay-price-in-middle-east

Given the total inaccuracy of the right wing polls during this election, I wonder if those donors actually buy this poll. Given the results on Tuesdays, its really hard to believe that they can continue to excuse away the general march towards greater public approval towards SSM.

By: Keppler

Keppler — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:42:02 +0000

Umm…isn’t this how the Republican’s managed to convince themselves that Romney was going to win the election, by diddling the polls until they got the result they were looking for? Déjà vu.

By: Rob Tisinai

Rob Tisinai — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:20:46 +0000

I haven’t been able to find any demographic information on the poll’s respondents, have you?

NOM may have learned its lesson. Last time they revealed a sample’s demographics, it turned they had skewed their age groups way up.