NOM’s Maggie Gallagher steps down, shatters ankles in the process.

Maggie Gallagher - Looking all sexy and shit

The National Organization for Marriage, which is ironically against all forms of marriage but heterosexual ones, has announced that their President Maggie Gallagher will be stepping down and replaced by executive director Brian Brown. Maggie will be staying on a special executive committee that will allow her to continue to make inflammatory and factual incorrect accusations against homosexuals and anyone else she personally dislikes.  On this committee, we can assume she will continue to rail against gay relationships of any kind as well as lambast proponents of abortion, sex education and common sense. Mrs. Gallagher was a former unwed mother before she founded NOM.  Thankfully she realized her personal mistakes and direct assaults on her own moral views had no impact on her ability to judge others, all while holding a degree in (wait for it) religious studies.

Brian has not only “overseen” — he has instigated and created (under God) NOM’s incredible growth in less than three years: from one donor to 35,000, from no activists to over 500,000, from zero public profile to the recent public acknowledgment by the Washington Post that NOM has emerged as the “pre-eminent national organization fighting the legalization of same-sex marriage.” In less than three years, NOM has compiled an incredible record of victories (forging coalitions and working with many others who also deserve the credit, we never forget): putting Prop 8 on the ballot in California, overturning gay marriage in Maine, blocking gay marriage bills in New York and New Jersey, fighting in court to protect marriage activists from legal harassment, helping turn “scozzfava” into a verb. (To “scozzfava” a politician is to inform GOP primary voters that he or she is pro-gay marriage).

I contact a professor of Unicorn studies and Shamrock magic, but have yet to hear their views on this policy change. Hopefully their intense educational fortitude will shine further light on this shake up.