Former NOM Head Won't Attend a Gay Wedding: Potentially Overworked Caterers Rejoice

Who would invite her anyway?

Former head of the National Organization for Marriage Maggie Gallagher stated Friday that unlike 2016 GOP presidential hopeful Marco Rubio, who said that he would attend the wedding of a gay or lesbian friend, she would (not so respectfully) decline. This news was greeted with cheers by many who fear getting stuck behind Gallagher on any wedding reception buffet line.

In an opinion piece published on the National Review website, Gallagher said that while she lauded the "dignity and kindness" of Rubio's decision to attend a gay loved one's wedding, she herself would not attend.

And get this, she's not just going to check "no" on the RSVP card. Gallagher planned a verbose response that will guarantee that she'll no longer be bothered with any further invitations to life events thrown by the happy couple.

"The problem for me in celebrating your gay wedding, as much as I love you, is that I would be witnessing and celebrating your attempt not only to commit yourself to a relationship that keeps you from God's plan" Gallagher harps, "but, worse, I would be witnessing and celebrating your attempt to hold the man you love to a vow that he will avoid God's plan. To vow oneself to sin is one thing, to try to hold someone you love to it - that's not something I can celebrate."

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"I understand�that you might well want to rupture our friendship over this, my honest view." Gallagher continued. "I choose to love you both and keep you in my life. But let us somehow against all odds find a way to love each other as we are, and not how each of us would wish the other to be."

Cross-stitch that onto a pillow and sit on it, Maggie.

Currently the president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, Gallagher is the founder and former president of the National Organization for Marriage, a position that she abdicated in 2010. She has referred to being gay as a "sexual disability" and called on the Bush administration to dedicated research dollars to "ex-gay" therapy. She has compared winning the fight to ban marriage for gay couples with the fall of communism and believes that if it is made legal, it will mean "losing American civilization."�

She is 54 and single.