Maggie Gallagher, who co-founded the
National Organization for Marriage (NOM), has all but conceded that
gay marriage foes have lost.
In a revealing interview with the
Huffington
Post, Gallagher, who manned the front lines in 2008 as NOM
successfully campaigned for passage of Proposition 8, stated that she
was made aware that the tide had turned with last summer's Supreme
Court rulings on marriage equality.
“As I said last summer, it was clear
to me from reading Windsor [United States v. Windsor],
gay marriage advocates now have five votes for inserting a right to
gay marriage in our Constitution. We are now in the 'gay marriage in
all 50 states' phase, whether we like it or not,” Gallagher said.
“I went into this fight, in good
conscience, because I believed it mattered and that I had something
to contribute. I did not promise myself I would win. I promised
myself I would do everything I could see, to do this good, to fight
for marriage as a universal human institution with certain goods and
goals. I feel a great deal of contentment about that. I can see
some things I might have done differently, but basically I was at
post. One cannot do anything better with one's life than stand up
for what you deeply believe in, i.e, to speak truth, whether in power
or to power.”
“I have a lot more freedom now to
figure out what I want to do with the next 20 years of my life,”
she added.