NOM Still Tries to Take Down Oregon's Gay Marriage Law

The National Organization for Marriage said last month they are never going away - and they sure are sticking to their word.

After a number of thwarted attempts, the anti-gay group is still challenging a federal court's May 19 ruling that overturned Oregon's ban on same-sex marriage, Oregon Live reports.

Even though a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals tossed out NOM's attempt to be part of the case two weeks ago, it didn't stop the group from asking the full Ninth Circuit Court to reconsider the decision Wednesday.

This isn't the first time NOM has tried to get involved in the case. Back in June, the Supreme Court rejected NOM's request to stop same-sex marriages from occurring in Oregon, which went into effect after District Judge Michael McShane found that the state's ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional, Oregon Live notes.

NOM's request comes just as the Supreme Court formally added same-sex marriage cases to the justices' agenda for their closed-door conference on Sept. 29.

Last month NOM's president Brain Brown told the Guardian that they are so bent on banning same-sex marriage in the country that his group will never go away - even if the Supreme Court rules in favor of marriage equality.

"We're not going away," said Brian Brown, president of the NOM. "We've been hearing about our demise for the last 15 years. It hasn't happened, and it's not going to happen, even if the [US supreme] court is to do the unthinkable in an attempt to redefine marriage and the law."

The D.C.-based group was in some financial hot water back in May when Maine's ethics panel fined the group more than $50,000 and ordered the group to file a campaign finance report to reveal the donors behind the 2009 repeal of the state's gay marriage law after the panel discovered NOM was violating Maine's campaign finance laws, the Associated Press reported.

"We didn't create a scheme, we tried to follow the law," Brown told the four-member panel in May.