NOM co-chair concedes on marriage equality

In an interview with Lila Shapiro of the Huffington Post, the co-founder and co-chair of the National Organization for Marriage, Maggie Gallagher, has in effect conceded they have lost the battle to prevent marriage equality.

Asked by Shapiro:  "At this point, what do you think is the most effective way to push the message of 'traditional marriage' forward?"  Gallagher replied:

As I said last summer, it was clear to me from reading Windsor [the U.S. Supreme Court decision in 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. What's next? In my view people who believe in the traditional understanding of marriage, and believe that it matters, have to become a creative minority, finding way to both express these sexual views, culturally, artistically and intellectually and to engage with the newly dominant cultural view of marriage respectfully but not submissively. 

That one paragraph is the most honest and the only responsible thing I have ever heard from Maggie Gallagher since I first started following her anti-gay rants back when she was a syndicated columnist carried in the AJC.   Mostly, back then, she just seemed a silly, ill-informed, prejudiced woman.

Then she became a national spokesperson for the anti-gay viewpoint, and she not only seemed silly and irrelevant but outright ugly and bigoted.   So, in her defeat, I will give Maggie a passing grade for accepting the inevitable with some grace and respect.

When compared with the odious Fred Phelps, she doesn't look so bad after all.

Ralph 

PS:  Please note:   I have corrected the earlier mistake in my headline.   It's NOM (National Organization for Marriage, not NOW (National Organization of Women) as I mistakenly wrote it originally.   My apologies to any NOW members who might have read this.