National Organization for Marriage

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is an American political action group that opposes same-sex marriage. What will they do in a post Obergefell vs. Hodges world? Oh.

It's Gonna Start Raining Men...RUN!
NOM is perhaps best known for its "Gathering Storm" ad, released in 2009, which features a bunch of people greenscreened in front of dark storm clouds. They make it sound like Hurricane Homo has reached category 5 and is about to make landfall:
 * "There's a storm gathering."
 * "The clouds are dark and the winds are strong."
 * "And I am afraid."

The irony meter breaks at the end when NOM affiliate Damon Owens appears to tell us his multi-ethnic "rainbow coalition" offers a ray of hope. Everyone else in the ad is an actor, and none of them seem very passionate about NOM's cause, if the leaked casting videos are anything to go by.

Also of note
Ender's Game author Orson Scott Card was on the board of directors for NOM from 2009 to 2013. He quietly stepped down, possibly to avoid issues with the pending release of the film of the same name.

People
Key figures in NOM include Brian S. Brown, who is also involved with the World Congress of Families, and Maggie Gallagher, also of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy.

Further Irony
NOM has had some trouble with its abbreviations, particularly "2M4M" and "PNP". The former means "two men seeking another man (for a threesome)"; The latter stands for "party and play", referring to drugs and sex.

Wait, it's legal now?
By 2015, all US states had legalised same-sex marriage. But even before then, NOM had pivoted to more generally hating on LGBT people, mocking trans and gay people, and supporting homophobic comments by people such as Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty. However it also found itself $2 million in debt; a fine of $50,250 for violating Maine electoral law did not help, and it teetered on the brink of collapse for a few years. Its annual March for Marriage in Washington DC fell from thousands of attendees c. 2009 to 30-50 people in 2017.

It continued to persecute trans people, submitting a 2016 amicus curiae brief in the long-running legal dispute between trans student Gavin Grimm and his school board. In 2017, they were told off by the clerk of the Supreme Court for deliberately misgendering Grimm.

Fortunately, the NOM finally seems to have died, with its website in October 2022 still calling for senators to confirm Amy Coney Barrett, who was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2020, and its blog offline.