NOM

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English

Proper noun

NOM

  1. Initialism of National Organization for Marriage.
    • 2014, Wallace Swan, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Civil Rights, page 65:
      National Organization for Marriage The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) was formed in 2007 with the intention of organizing and focusing the opposition to same-sex marriage in a single national voice.
    • 2018, Clyde Wilcox, Onward Christian Soldiers?: The Religious Right in American Politics:
      A number of groups have formed in recent years around the same-sex marriage issue. By 2010 two organizations had taken center stage at the national level. Founded in 2007, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization that lobbies and builds grass-roots campaigns in support of traditional marriage—that is, in opposition to same-sex marriage—at the state and national levels.
    • 2018, Rhonda Gibson, Same-Sex Marriage and Social Media:
      The Washington Post has referred to NOM as the “preeminent organization dedicated to preventing the legalization of same-sex marriage" (Hesse, 2009).
    • 2019 November 7, Aila Slisco, “Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito Urged to Recuse Themselves from LGBT Cases”, in Newsweek:
      NOM advocates for what they claim is "traditional marriage," and hope to take marriage rights away from same sex couples.

Anagrams

Latin

Proper noun

NOM

  1. Novus Ordo Missae

Spanish

Noun

NOM f (plural #)

  1. Initialism of Norma Oficial Mexicana (Official Mexican Standard), each of a series of official, compulsory standards and regulations for diverse activities in Mexico
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