NEW YORK – Jim Daly, president and CEO of Focus on the Family, a leading funder of anti-gay attacks concentrated on denying same-sex couples the freedom to marry, has declared that the opponents of equality are being repudiated by young people and have “probably lost” on same-sex marriage.
In an interview in the June 4 issue of World Magazine, Daly was asked the question: We’re winning the younger generation on abortion, at least in theory. What about same-sex marriage?
Daly responded, “We’re losing on that one, especially among the 20- and 30-somethings: 65 to 70 percent of them favor same-sex marriage. I don’t know if that’s going to change with a little more age – demographers would say probably not. We’ve probably lost that. I don’t want to be extremist here, but I think we need to start calculating where we are in the culture.”
Focus on the Family and other anti-gay organizations such as the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) still intend to spend millions of dollars in 2012 to add additional layers of discrimination to state constitutions to impede the country’s progress and prolong as much as possible the exclusion of loving and committed couples from marriage.
Evan Wolfson, Founder and President of Freedom to Marry commented, “Focus on the Family finally got something right – the American people are rejecting their anti-gay toxic rhetoric and punitive politics, and are siding with loving and committed couples seeking the freedom to marry.”
Organizations such as Focus on the Family and NOM have the key shell-groups pushing discriminatory constitutional amendments in states such as Indiana, Minnesota, and North Carolina, where couples are already denied the freedom to marry by statute, and funneling money to local entities and campaigns with similar discriminatory aims and rhetoric.
