Scenes like this in North Carolina have the bigots at NOM extremely upset.

Scenes like this in North Carolina have the bigots at NOM extremely upset.

Marriage equality is now the law in North Carolina, but the sore losers at the National Organization for Marriage are spending $125,000 in the state anyway:



The group, which opposes same-sex couples’ marriage rights, spent $117,000 in postcard mailers distributed on Monday in support of Republican North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis or in opposition to Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan. The information was reported in a filing with the Federal Election Commission.

Tillis, in his role as speaker, has attempted to fight lawsuits that resulted in bringing marriage equality to North Carolina earlier this month. Additionally, NOM will be running a television ad in support of “traditional marriage” during the 6 p.m. news broadcast in Charlotte, North Carolina. The ad will run three times, at a cost of $8,400.

I guess even if you can't prevent people from getting married, you can still try to mobilize people upset about those marriages out to vote for a bigot politician like Thom Tillis.

Hilariously, NOM is specifically attacking Hagan for voting—back in 2011—to confirm the federal district judge who overturned North Carolina's marriage ban in 2014. The kicker? The confirmation vote was 96-0, "including North Carolina's other senator, Republican Richard Burr, who helped lead the effort to usher Cogburn through the nomination process."

NOM is also spending in Arkansas, California, Massachusetts, and Oregon—in California and Massachusetts they are, as promised , opposing Republican House candidates Carl DeMaio and Richard Tisei because they're gay. (Please, guys, do create the storyline that if DeMaio and Tisei lose it's because Republicans can't deal with gay candidates. Keep building that case for Democrats to win younger voters for another generation.)