Brian Brown, president of the National
Organization for Marriage (NOM), on Wednesday predicted victories for
opponents of gay marriage in the coming year.
Seven states moved into the marriage
equality column in 2013, bringing to 16 the number of states where
gay couples can marry. Supporters this year also cheered the Supreme
Court ruling which led to federal recognition of the legal marriages
of same-sex couples.
Brown, however, summed up the year by
suggesting that marriage equality supporters had overplayed their
hand.
“When history looks back on the
2012-2013 legislative year, I believe it will be remembered as the
year Americans realized [sic] the same-sex marriage movement for what
it truly is: a bullying behemoth that puts the very foundations of
our democracy at stake.”
“From the earliest days of the
marriage battle in our country, the other side has claimed to be 'on
the right side of history' and said that their movement enjoyed the
momentum of public sentiment so that same-sex marriage in America was
'inevitable.'”
“They said this despite majorities in
state after state standing up in favor of marriage between one man
and one woman at the ballot box. It wasn't until 2012 that they had
a single election victory to bolster their 'inevitability' myth. But
one year of slight victories does not make a myth reality. Next year
we'll show that history – and not myths – is what finally
matters. And history is on our side!”
“The majority of Americans won't go
willingly along with a movement that finds friendship with a corrupt
IRS … with politically ambitious activist judges … with local
officials who break their oaths of office … with city councils who
target and persecute people of faith … with legislatures who sell
out their constituents … and with a President who pushes that slim
minority's radical agenda while crucial programs (including even his
own 'signature' legislative achievement) unravel at the seams!”
“No, the American people are waking
up to see the same-sex marriage movement for the radical, bullying,
anti-democratic and even anti-American behemoth that it is. And
we're going to work hard to wake more and more of them up to the fact
– with your help!” he
added before asking for a contribution.
(Related: Conservative
Jennifer Rubin to NOM: Campaign for marriage, not against gay
marriage.)