The National Organization for Marriage, which, besides having it in its name, kept its anti-gay battles limited to marriage to stay away any evidence of animus. Until now. NOM has officially (and for the first time) untethered itself from battling same-sex marriage to become a general anti-gay hate group. How's that for animus?

The National Organization for Marriage has unsurprising bedfellows in the Westboro Baptist Church, which has today filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court's Proposition 8 case. 

The National Organization for Marriage's war against Starbucks isn't going so well. Launched over summer for a myriad of reasons surrounding Starbucks' many pro-LGBT initiatives, NOM's "Dump Starbucks" campaign has missed its target and, arguably, caused the anti-gay group itself the most damage. 

Losing the war? Then move the battleground to a locale where you have the advantage. In NOM's case, it's decided to move the battleground to the vehemently hostile-to-gays regions of the Middle East and Asia. 

The National Organization for Marriage's Ruth Institute published an article Wednesday that compares gay couples who use surrogates to have kids with sexual predators who rape women. Seriously. 

The National Organization for Marriage is blatantly employing its notorious "race baiting" strategy in North Carolina ahead of the presidential election. In ad spots purchased on R&B and gospel radio stations in the state, NOM voiceover actor Pastor Patrick Wooden tells North Carolina African-Americans to ditch their vote for Obama due to his "strong endorsement of the homosexual movement." 

If exploiting African Americans and Latinos and pitting them against marriage equality wasn't eye-opening enough, another NOM tactic revealed in its internal documents provides insight into its unique and desperate hiring process. 

In response to the Monday release of the National Organization for Marriage's 2010 financial records, the Human Rights Campaign hits hopefully the final nail in NOM's coffin directly on the head: with only five big donors, how can NOM call itself a "grassroots organization"?

As expected, the National Organization for Marriage's 2010 IRS filing, publicly revealed today, shows that the anti-gay group's funding largely comes from the pocketbooks of just a few people. Details follow.

Don we now our anti-gay apparel? The National Organization for Marriage is reaching out to an entirely new demographic for its haute-couture high-fashion line of clothing: babies. Details follow.

Today the National Organization for Marriage is backpedaling away from Cindy Golding, a right-wing anti-gay candidate who ran for office in Iowa thanks to a down-low $40,000 donation from the hate group. Golding lost her bid for a state senate seat during Tuesday's elections and today NOM has unsheathed its claws to call its bigoted bedfellow a "weak candidate."

Well, this actually took longer than I expected: after what was likely countless meetings, Brian Brown, head of the National Organization for Marriage, and Maggie Gallagher, board member, have manufactured a way to turn the Kardashian divorce into a bumper sticker for their homophobic activism. So, how has NOM managed to blame gays for the Kardashian divorce and turn what was amounting to an opportunity for marriage equality against us?

Updated Wednesday, 12:30 p.m. EST

Rachel Maddow caught wind of The National Organization for Marriage's theft of an Obama rally picture and dedicated a segment to the ruse on her Tuesday night broadcast. Follow the jump to hear Rachel blast NOM for the lie.