An Anti-Gay Marriage Group’s Big GOP Target

[DonViejo]

Ben Jacobs

Sen. Rob Portman is a rising star in the GOP. But since he’s switched his stance on gay marriage, a group of social conservatives wants to take him down.

Senator Rob Portman is being touted as a potential presidential candidate by Speaker John Boehner, and the Ohio Republican is making a campaign appearance in Iowa this week. But that isn’t stopping a major conservative organization from recruiting candidates to run against him in his 2016 Senate primary.

Brian Brown, the president of the National Organization for Marriage, a prominent social conservative group, told The Daily Beast that his group would be working “day in and day out to have a candidate to defeat Portman.” Brown said that the group had identified “several folks who could potentially” win a Republican Senate primary against Portman in 2016 and was actively recruiting them to run.

Portman received national attention in 2013 when he emotionally came out in support of gay marriage. The Ohio senator’s decision was spurred by his son, Will, coming out as gay in 2011. His switch on the issue angered many on the right, particularly among groups like NOM, which is dedicated to fighting the legalization of gay marriage.

Brown has also been encouraging his fellow Republicans not to vote for three GOP candidates in competitive races in 2014 who all support gay marriage. His group is urging conservatives not to support two openly gay Republican candidates for Congress, Richard Tisei in Massachusetts and Carl DeMaio in California, and also Monica Wehby, the pro-marriage equality GOP senate nominee in Oregon.

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1. I don't give Portman a great deal of credit. He strikes me as a typical ...

conservative. Until a policy directly affects him, he could give a fuck about anybody else. No doubt if he had a daughter who wished to terminate a pregnancy, or suffered the tragedy of having a child gunned down at school, his views on abortion and gun control would also change.

[CaptainTruth]

2. Why do conservative groups pick names that are the opposite of what they ...

... are trying to do? For example, the National Organization FOR Marriage is a group that wants to PREVENT thousands of people from getting married.

I guess it makes it easy to decipher their real agendas, if their name includes the word Justice you can be sure their agenda promotes injustice ... etc.

[TlalocW]

4. A few years back they launched a fundraiser called

Two Million for Marriage, where they were wanting to get two million people signed up to support their version of marriage.

They abbreviated it 2M4M, which to me looks like a sexy personal ad abbreviation.

TlalocW

[TlalocW]

3. Well, while I'm generally in agreement with any republican office holder losing

His primary, especially if it opens up the general election for a democratic takeover, NOM's success rate in anything is pretty much nil so Portman doesn't really need to worry about the primary at least.

TlalocW