Brian Brown, president of the National
Organization for Marriage (NOM), has encouraged groups to take a
“harder line in focusing more on homosexuality.”
Brown made his comments last month
during a conference call organized by Tea Party Unity.
When asked why NOM, the nation's most
vociferous opponent of gay marriage, is not taking “a hard stance”
against gay relationships, Brown said “different groups need to do
different things.”
“It's concerning to a lot of people
that the arguments being used in the various court cases concede that
homosexual relationships are legitimate and not a perversion or what
have you, we just don't like them,” said
Brian Camenker of MassResistance. “And we wonder if there was
more of a hard stance that they are not legitimate, that it is
perverse, unnatural and what have you, that we might have some better
success in some of the cases.”
“Whenever I'm asked about what I
think about homosexuality, I'm very clear, as a Catholic I believe in
the traditional teaching of our church,” Brown answered. “I
think that sex is reserved for marriage, period. As far as the legal
arguments go we may differ. I think a lot of the legal arguments
have been made in the Prop 8 case especially have been made to speak
to [Justice] Kennedy and Kennedy has already found in the Lawrence
case, for example, that states can't ban sodomy. So it's not likely
that a stronger argument about homosexuality is really going to shift
Kennedy.”
“I know some people think we need to
focus more on homosexuality. All I'll say is that when asked I state
what I believe and many of the religious supporters that we'll have
at the march clearly will stand up and proclaim biblical truth on
marriage. But I'm not sure whether legally that is the best
strategy. Also, different groups need to do different things, not
all groups have to do the same thing. So folks that are taking a
harder line in focusing more on homosexuality, there need to be
different groups doing different things.”