The National Organization for Marriage
(NOM) on Monday began airing an ad in North Carolina that blasts
President Barack Obama for his endorsement of gay marriage.
The 1 minute spot features Dr. Patrick
Wooden, an African-American pastor who ministers at Raleigh's Upper
Room Church.
“It was the African American
community that helped [President Obama] win here in North Carolina,”
Wooden says in the ad. “But President Obama has turned his back on
the values of our community with his strong endorsement of the
homosexual movement. We worked hard to pass the Marriage Protection
Amendment this past May. With the strong support of the African
American community, the amendment protecting marriage as the union of
one man and one woman passed overwhelmingly. The very next day,
President Obama came out for homosexual marriage. Now his campaign
leaders are working to deny North Carolina's ability to define
marriage, and they want to overturn our state marriage amendment
altogether. Join me in saying 'no more' to President Obama.” (The
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NOM said it plans to spend $34,000
airing the ad in the Raleigh media market and it could expand to
other markets.
The ad campaign kicks off a week before
Obama arrives in North Carolina to accept the Democratic nomination.
“The goal of our advertising campaign
is to issue a wake-up call to the African-American community in North
Carolina that President Obama does not represent the values that they
have fought to protect,” Brian Brown, president of NOM, said
in a blog post.
(Related: Patrick
Wooden says sodomy wrong only for gay men.)