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Anti-Gay Group Throws Away Nearly $120,000 on Election They Can't Win
The National Organization for Marriage has committed $117,000 to support the election of Thom Tillis to the North Carolina State Senate. But even if he wins, the organization loses: it’s too late for anyone to stop marriage equality in the state.
Tillis was a key architect of North Carolina’s gay marriage ban, Amendment One. Passed in the spring of 2012, Tom Tillis’ marriage ban lasted a little more than two years before it was overturned as unconstitutional. Tillis might be able to instigate new litigation to bring the ban back, but that’s not likely to go anywhere now that top state officials are unwilling to defend a marriage ban.
Public support for the ban was never particularly strong. Amendment One was passed with the lowest voter turnout, percentage-wise, of any marriage ban in the South.
In addition, Tillis’ Amendment One didn’t just ban marriage. It banned civil unions, too. That’s an increasingly unpopular stance, according to polls. And even opposition to full marriage recognition is shrinking in North Carolina.
In fact, Tillis has repeatedly avoided the topic of marriage equality during this campaign, probably because he knows he’s on the losing side of the issue. Voters will decide on November 4th whether he’ll be headed to the Senate.
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