Brian Brown, president of the National
Organization for Marriage (NOM), has stated that a federal marriage
amendment is needed to “reign in out of control judges” who rule
in favor of gay marriage.
In comments to conservative The
Daily
Caller, Brown attributed his side's recent loss in New Jersey
to judges who “make up the law.”
“People say, 'Well, you lost New
Jersey' – the courts forced gay marriage on New Jersey,” Brown
said.
“The only way to stop something like
that – and what we are working towards – is you've got to have
nominated judges who will interpret and not make up the law. There
[is] a whole group of people, not just 'social conservatives' that
believe this, and I think increasingly, people are recognizing that
if the courts do this on social issues, they can do it on anything.”
However, recent polls show a large
majority (62%) of New Jersey voters agree with the ruling and the
decision by Governor Chris Christie, a Republican, to stop fighting
it.
(Related: Large
majority of New Jersey voters favor ruling legalizing gay marriage.)
Brown added that the only way to “reign
in out of control judges” is to amend the U.S. Constitution.
Kansas Rep. Tim Huelskamp, a Republican, introduced legislation to do
that in June. Huelskamp's
House Joint Resolution 51 has attracted 56 co-sponsors as of
October 31.