I never thought a phrase like this would come out: hooray that the organization Freedom To Marry, which put in so much brilliant work fighting for same-sex marriage, is disbanding:

Freedom to Marry in June scored the kind of epochal victory that advocacy groups dream of: A Supreme Court ruling declaring that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry. Its next act: going out of business. “We achieved the goal we set out to do,” said Evan Wolfson, Freedom to Marry’s founder and president. Instead of becoming “an organization that flails around and figures out what to do next,” he said he would help employees find work in other “good-guy causes” and make sure the group’s records were properly archived so that other social movements could study its methods. Last Thursday, 1,000 activists celebrated the group’s success at a party in Manhattan. “It’s wonderful to show up at a place that’s happy to be going out of business,” Vice President Joe Biden told the crowd.

Good for them.

If religion were no longer a problem in the world, I’d retire and find something else to do.

If we’re working to fix something then the best possible outcome we can imagine would be going out of business. This is a success. Their employees are probably thrilled to be out of a job. And why not? They’ve earned a victory lap or two.