NEW YORK – The National Organization for Marriage’s (NOM) “Let the People Vote” campaign has been described by one conservative columnist as a “futile venture” that amounts to “deceptive advertising.”
James Taranto in his recent Wall Street Journal column wrote, “If the National Organization for Marriage were a commercial enterprise, its ‘Let the People Vote’ campaign would be a case of deceptive advertising.
“The National Organization for Marriage declared in a recent press release that it plans ‘to spend at least $2 million leading to the defeat of the seven state Senators who were responsible for the imposition of same-sex marriage in New York.’ There’s nothing about the Assembly, which would also have to approve (twice) any constitutional amendment before it would appear on the ballot. That would require at least nine members to switch sides.
“We searched LetThePeopleVote.com for a description of the procedure for putting an amendment on the New York ballot and couldn’t find one. Instead, the language on the site implies that the Legislature acted illegitimately when it ‘imposed same-sex marriage on New York with no vote of the people.’ Such a vote is not part of the ordinary procedure for enacting legislation in New York, and it is misleading to pretend otherwise.”
To date NOM have made little comment on Taranto’s dismissive remarks.
