Brian Brown, president of the National
Organization for Marriage (NOM), launched a new global group over the
weekend aimed at creating a “new movement” against marriage
equality.
Launched in South Africa, Brown said
that he hopes his International Organization for the Family (IOF)
will “create a whole new movement around the world.”
The new group is hoping to gather 2
million signatures to its Cape Town Declaration in the coming year.
“We are of one mind on the bedrock of
civil society, on the basis of that first and primordial community
called the family: We affirm the dignity of marriage as the conjugal
bond of man and woman,” the manifesto reads. “We embrace it not
as the parochial practice of any sect or nation or age, but as the
patrimony of all mankind. We defend it not as a matter of preference
or temperament or taste but as the heart of any just social order.”
It adds in conclusion: “Together we
join in common cause, East and West, North and South, to stand for a
truth that no government can change. Bowing to no earthly power,
using every just measure, we shall not falter or flag until the truth
about marriage is embraced in our laws and honored in our lands.”
Among those speaking at the unveiling
were Errol Naidoo, founder and president of the Family Policy
Institute of South Africa, John Eastman, chairman of NOM, and David
van Gend, from the Austrian Marriage Forum, Right
Wing Watch reported.