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No, Maggie Gallagher—we can't agree on that

17 hours agoLGBT / Gay : Good As You

Maggie Gallagher asks: "If we can’t agree on anything else, can we at least agree that Jonathan Rauch’s noble dream (it was noble) that gay marriage could be part of strengthening a marriage culture generally is now demonstrably untrue?" And:...

Maggie Gallagher Doubles Down: Saying Heterosexuality Is Better Isn’t Anti-Gay

Earlier this week, Maggie Gallagher tried to assert that championing heterosexuality does not denigrate gay people, even though her specific goal in doing so is to deny them the same legal protections of marriage. In a follow-up post at the National Review also excerpted by the National Organization for Marriage, Gallagher doubled down on this [...]

Why gay man and activist @JohnCorvino wrote a book with Maggie Gallagher #fridayreads

18 hours agoLGBT / Gay : Good As You

In the year since the release of the book he co-authored with Maggie Gallagher, Debating Same-Sex Marriage, many of you have wondered why LGBT activist and gay man John Corvino (pic.) chose to link his name and literary gifts to...

Bad Luck With That

Shorter Maggie Gallagher: I wish there was some way that we could say that gays and lesbians are immoral should-be second class-citizens without being homophobic. I mean, Robert Stacy McCain says that you can say that interracial marriage is wrong without being racist, so there’s precedent, right?

Maggie Gallagher: Being Pro-Straight Is Different From Being Anti-Gay

Maggie Gallagher, former frontwoman for the National Organization for Marriage, penned a short post Tuesday at the National Review noting that moral approval for both gay sex and unwed childbearing has increased in recent polling. She attributes the correlation to a change in societal attitudes, highlighting that the “Christian views of sex” that have been [...]

Maggie Gallagher: The IRS Got Tricked Into Leaking NOM's Tax Return

last weekLGBT / Gay : Joe. My. God.

"The IRS is claiming — and I think it is plausible — that low-level employees found a clever way to use their low-level job to influence (they hoped) a U.S. election. Have they been identified and fired? Because otherwise this becomes no longer a low-level problem. Show More Summary

Does Sanford's Victory Bode Ill for the Culture?

Jonah Goldberg discusses this. His take is "Sure, I wish there were more of social penalty for immoral behavior, including a de facto bar from attaining high office, but that's not the world we live in. Maggie Gallagher says differently....

Video: Mike McManus says 'perverted' gays were largely molested, want to destroy marriage

2 months agoLGBT / Gay : Good As You

Mike McManus was one of the three media personalities (Armstrong Williams and Maggie Gallagher being the other two) who the Bush Administration paid to endorse marriage policy. Now listen in as this same Mike McManus says that gays have a...

NOM’s Ruth Institute Caught Lying About Support of Chicago Bears

How long will it be before former NOM head Maggie Gallagher says that the email was “inapt?”

If Maggie Gallagher could self-assess the way she self-victimizes, marriage discourse would be infinitely more productive

2 months agoLGBT / Gay : Good As You

Ever the victim, that Maggie Gallagher: I have tried hard to say we should treat gay people with respect as friends, neighbors and fellow-citizens. But I have been thwarted by progressives’ insistence that the opposite of 'agreeing with me' must...

Maggie Gallagher On SCOTUS

2 months agoLGBT / Gay : Joe. My. God.

The interview took place on Wednesday.

The Anti-Equality Movement

Chait uses Maggie Gallagher to document its decline: The surest sign of resignation is that Gallagher has redirected her focus from stopping gay marriage to preserving the dignity of her reputation and those of her fellow believers. She now presents her cause as a kind of civil rights movement to protect her fellow believers from the stigma [...]

Maggie Gallagher: Pro-Gay Ruling from SCOTUS Would 'Take Away Something Very Precious' from Americans - VIDEO

2 months agoLGBT / Gay : Towleroad

NOM's Maggie Gallagher appeared on FOX News today to give her take on the Supreme Court and Proposition 8, facing off against former Clinton aide Richard Socarides, Equality Matters reports. Said Gallagher: "For the Supreme Court to brand this view...

Megyn Kelly To Maggie Gallagher: How Is Prop 8 Different From A Ban On Interracial Marriage?

Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly challenged Maggie Gallagher, co-founder of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), over her claim that courts should avoid making controversial decisions about marriage, pointing out that the Supreme...Show More Summary

A Reminder to Justice Kennedy

from Maggie Gallagher: I think it’s a serious problem. A democracy should not be dependent for its major decisions on what nine unelected people from a narrow legal background have to say. And I think it’s of tremendous importance for...Show More Summary

Maggie Gallagher Walks Through Pro-Gay Crowd at Supreme Court Arguments: PHOTO

2 months agoLGBT / Gay : Towleroad

(twitter joe sudbay) Joe Sudbay reports on Twitter: "Maggie herself walked thru pro-marriage crowd"

The Politics of the New Normal: Maggie Gallagher on Marriage

Maggie Gallagher has been writing about marriage for much longer than our media attention spans seem capable of focusing on a topic. She is co-author, most recently, of Debating Same-Sex Marriage from Oxford University Press. She talks about some of the politics and realities of marriage in America today. Keep reading this post...

Maggie Gallagher, Rape Culture, And The Persistent Idea That Women Can Tame Men And Need To Fix Them

In a (not surprisingly) depressing post railing against equal marriage rights over at National Review, Maggie Gallagher, the founder of the misleadingly-named Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, quotes an anti-equality speaker who argues that “Only one creature has been known to calm men down into faithful and stable relationships since the dawn of time [...]

Hey, where'd Maggie go? #marchformarriage

2 months agoLGBT / Gay : Good As You

On Friday, Maggie Gallagher was listed as a speaker at NOM's upcoming march outside the Supreme Court: Now, she's gone. Her photo has been replaced with the president of France's conservative Christian Democratic Party (which NOM writes as "Chistian" and...

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