WASHINGTON, D.C. – Former member of the National Organization for Marriage, Louis Marinelli, has formed a new organization, the National Organization for Marriage Equality.
Marinelli, was the bus driver for last year’s NOM “Summer of Marriage Tour” and, according to his new website www.wearenome.org, he is planning a tour this summer for marriage equality visiting 17 states.
The tour will be visiting the cities he visited last year when he came up with the idea of the bus tour for NOM. He said it was because of the counter-protesters at the stops he made last year that gave him thought and a change of heart and his resignation from NOM.
“I am personally responsible for that tour,” said Marinelli. “It was my idea and I proposed it to Brian Brown, NOM’s President, who agreed to endorse and sponsor the project. As a result, I feel compelled to revisit the cities of last year’s marriage tour to meet the thousands of people who came out to meet discrimination and bigotry head-on in the streets of their hometowns.”