The National Organization for Marriage’s Brian Brown told supporters in a fundraising email today that he is working to keep the issue of marriage equality “before the American public” so that bans on same-sex marriage “can be restored to our laws at the earliest possible moment,” which he said could happen as early as the next Supreme Court retirement.

Dismissing as “fake news” recent reports that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has no plans to retire, NOM president Brian Brown speculated that Justice Anthony Kennedy could soon announce his retirement and, in any case, “it’s no secret that most of the liberal justices are quite elderly and the cold reality of life is that nobody lives forever.”

He assured his supporters that “marriage is not ‘lost’ as a public policy issue because the rationale used by the Supreme Court in redefining marriage in 2015 was so specious, so utterly lacking in judicial precedent and legal foundation, that the retirement of a single justice who voted to redefine marriage could totally upend the situation and bring marriage back before the Supreme Court with a realistic opportunity to restore marriage.”