Last week, the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins appeared on the “Point Of View” radio program to discuss his participation in the marriage conference hosted by the Vatican in November, saying that the event has convinced him that the Religious Right will win the fight against gay marriage in America because “we’re on the side of the one who wrote history.”

After predicting that President Obama “more than any president in the history of this country, will be recorded in history as undermining the culture and the fabric and foundation of this country,” Perkins likened the Vatican event to receiving a motivational pep talk during halftime at a football game, declaring that anti-gay activists are now “ready to go back out on the field and win the game.”

“This was a moment to step back and get it into perspective of world history, human history, and say ‘you know what? We are on the winning side,'” Perkins said. “This idea that we’re on the wrong side of history; no, we’re on the side of the one who wrote history and we will prevail in this”: