Romney PAC’s Donation To NOM Uncovered

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LGBT advoacy group the Human Rights Campaign (which has endorsed Pres. Obama’s reelection campaign) has uncovered documents that say Mitt Romney’s PAC gave money to the National Organization for Marriage, the anti-gay marriage group at the center of a controversy about its tactics this week.

Sam Stein reports:

While neither the donation nor Romney’s opposition to same-sex marriage were a secret, the precise way in which he contributed to NOM remained under tight wraps until Friday. One of the only public comments on the matter came when the former Massachusetts governor’s top spokesman, Eric Fehrnstrom, told the Deseret News that Romney supported California’s Proposition 8, which would reverse the state law allowing for same-sex marriage, and that he would be writing a check to NOM.

“The governor feels strongly that marriage is an institution between a man and a woman, and one of the most high-profile fights on this subject is happening in California,” Fehrnstrom said at the time.

But when Romney eventually made his donation, he did so quietly, and through an unusual channel.

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