Courts in states across the country have rejected the National Organization for Marriage’s efforts to hide their donors, as they’re trying to do in Minnesota, saying the group provided no credible evidence of threats or violence.
The Human Rights Campaign said the law firm has “established a clear pattern of knowingly taking on anti-LGBT organizations as clients, even after we and others in the community expressed concerns.”
Mitchell is a rising star in conservative circles, having supported a slew of tea party candidates, pushed for photo ID laws and helped take down low-income advocacy group ACORN.
As the battle around the 2012 vote on a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage heats up, the board declined to open more disclosure loopholes.
Relaxing disclosure rules would benefit groups like Minnesota for Marriage, which has vowed not to comply with some campaign finance guidelines as they advocate for a constitutional gay marriage ban,
Transparency advocates say the group appears to be prepping a lawsuit challenging the state’s already weakened disclosure rules.
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The National Organization for Marriage, which is a part of Minnesota for Marriage, has opposed regulations of its campaign activity in almost every state it has operated in
In the last five years, groups supporting the constitutional marriage ban have spent five times as much as opponents.
Eastman warned at impeachment hearings in Colorado in 2004 that there’s a movement afoot in Canada to “define reading of the Bible as a hate crime because it is anti-homosexual.”
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