Brian Brown, president of the National
Organization for Marriage (NOM), has called marriage equality “a
lie” about what it means to be a human being that cannot stand.
Appearing on Tamara Scott's radio
program last week, Brown said that a Supreme Court ruling striking
down state bans on gay marriage would be “illegitimate.”
Brown compared such a ruling to other
“horrible” Supreme Court decisions, including rulings on slavery
and segregation.
“It may be a generation or two down
the line, but this lie about what it means to be a human being cannot
stand. It cannot stand,” Brown
said. “And just because the Supreme Court says it's so, it
doesn't make it so. The Supreme Court has had horrible decisions in
the past, horrible decisions like the Dred Scott decision, Plessy
v. Ferguson, the Fugitive Slave Act, Roe v. Wade. Just
because the Supreme Court said it was so didn’t make it so, and
there was an obligation for people living in those times to stand up
and say 'no this is wrong' and to fight with every ounce of their
being for the truth.”
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy
S. Moore recently made similar
arguments in defending his attempt to block gay couples from
marrying in Alabama.