Good As You: Maggie Gallagher Roundup
11/12/2009
Maggie Gallagher: The '80s glam years
In 2008, we all saw a forty-something Maggie Gallagher face off with Gloria Allred on Dr. Phil. But we just uncovered a delicious nugget from 20 years earlier, that we're sure both Mags and Gloria would love to keep buried...
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11/10/2009
Video: Evan vs. anything but even
- She uses the "this gay marriage thing" line yet again. TWICE! - She uses her other overplayed talking points, like "the two great halves of humanity" - She dances around the issue of civil unions and domestic partnerships, even...
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11/06/2009
Video: She's just so mean-spirited. There's really no nice way to say it.
It's fitting that Maggie would record this video for the Catholic News Agency, considering the National Organization For Marriage is essentially a Catholic front group. It's also fitting that she'd gloat over her ability to dupe a majority margin of...
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One must have goals
Maggie has a plan: "Can the powerful gay-marriage movement be stopped? I don't know. I promise you one thing though: I am going to find out." Despair [NRO] Eh, it's a living. So is this:
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11/05/2009
Video: What, was the Museum of Unfortunate Civil Rights Missteps closed or something?
The nerve of her: Maggie Gallagher, head of NOM, attends pro-gay marriage rally in DC; still supports Carrie Prejean [video] [Metro Weekly]
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10/24/2009
Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 7)
How extreme is the National Organization For Marriage? Well get this. Back in 1996, when that awful Defense of Marriage Act was passed, NOM's Maggie Gallagher actually spoke out against it. Because she found it to be -- get this...
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10/02/2009
Spouses and 'righteousness': Does Maggie have more in common with us than she might admit?
Because they're just oh-so into "religious freedom," today's edition of the Baptist Press website features not one but two attacks on the Hindu faith: Yaussy says many Hindus across southern Asia "are feeling the same emptiness that I felt in...
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09/29/2009
Maggie's the victim?! Well you must excuse me, for my gag reflex feels victimized...
Oh, it's just so easy for the social conservatives to reduce our movement like so: [Maggie Gallagher] herself is constantly vilified on homosexual websites. Google her name along with LGBT and you will read page after page of mockery and...
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09/22/2009
Audio: Our own DOMA (Defiance of Maggie's Act)
- The Defense of Marriage Act was itself a fight that was picked against marriage. Our marriages. And in fact, when DOMA was being passed, Maggie Gallagher wanted the fight to be an even stronger one. She thought DOMA was...
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09/09/2009
Maggie shocked -- SHOCKED! -- that gays won't let her anti-'live and let live' views live
When it comes to the fight to redress the stakes in a "culture war" battle that she's chosen to wage, Maggie Gallagher has never met a victim card that she wouldn't play. Latest example: In a new syndicated piece, she...
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09/04/2009
Audio: Maggie & ME
This morning while visiting Maine, Maggie Gallagher (or Srivastav) appeared on a local show called "The Ken and Mike Morning News Show." Things to listen listen up for: Maggie once again using the Ocean Grove, NJ, thing, neglecting to mention...
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Nun your business: What's really behind NOM's anti-civil habit
The National Organization For Marriage is all about their supposed "broad-based coalition." But when you listen to its Catholic leaders Maggie Gallagher and Brian Brown speak within their own Holy See-focused forums, you really start to hear what is truly...
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08/31/2009
Maggie to Iowa: Don't pay attention to the carefully formed thoughts behind the curtain
Speaking yet again about Iowa's marriage equality, this time to the AFA's One News Now site, professional anti-gay activist Maggie Gallagher says the following about Gov. Chet Culver and his failure to come out against his state Supreme Court's favorable...
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08/26/2009
Maggie Gallagher: What's in a name?
Those who oppose marriage equality for gay couples love to cite majority opinion to justify their resistance. In most every one of their public appearances, you'll find these "marriage protectors" quoting whatever polling data they can to supposedly "prove" that...
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All the (equal rights-deprived) world's a stage
There are some careers that are undeniably, inextricably linked to the LGBT community. Fields that are teeming with gays at every rank, from entry-level to top dog. Lines of work in which anti-gay bias is not merely a socio-political reality...
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08/17/2009
Video: Hurting gays, lacking the fortitude to admit it
Maggie Gallagher, from yesterday's supposedly "non-political" NOM Rhode Island event: It's also "not an accident" that some people are born gay, Maggie! And there is also "something special" about same-sex love! Stop overlooking the key issue here (i.e. your militant...
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08/10/2009
Video: 'This gay marriage thing'...'a civil wrong'
We've pondered it. We've given her the benefit of many doubts. We've tried to see her fight as being solely about her convictions rather than about us as people. But ya know, we're really beginning to think that Maggie Gallagher...
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08/05/2009
No, Maggie, the 'saddest thing' is your willingness to bastardize reality
This comes verbatim from page 54 of the Iowa marriage ruling: Promotion of optimal environment to raise children. Another governmental objective proffered by the County is the promotion of “child rearing by a father and a mother in a marital...
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07/28/2009
Perhaps they are the ones devaluing this fight?
It is almost unbelievable that the social conservatives are pinning their marriage inequality hopes on a runner-up in a Donald Trump-produced, non-scholarship, Vegas-based beauty pageant who gave a factually-inaccurate answer about "opposite marriage." But it's not the thing of bad...
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'Dr. Making Gay Love seem like Strangelove' or: How Maggie Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the DOMA
Maggie Gallagher and her National Organization For Marriage love, love, love, love, LOVE the Defense Of Marriage Act. NOM has set up shop in the nation's capital for the sole purpose of defending DOMA, and they are fundraising on the...
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07/23/2009
The more things change...
It's a living. **Our complete Maggie Gallagher archive ***The referenced WSJ column [6/3/96]
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05/26/2009
GAG. ME.
With an apparent lack of irony, Maggie Gallagher just twittered the following: No Mags: Thanks to the unrighteous maneuverings of people like yourself, the civil rights have already been stripped. The question for the day: Will the California SC will...
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05/05/2009
'You spin it right wing Maggie, right wing (like a record, Maggie) rght wing, right wing'
Mmm Hmm: “Because Carrie honestly said what she believed in answer to a question--marriage is the union of a man and a woman-- she is now the subject of ongoing character assassination. The level of hatred directed at her is...
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04/14/2009
Maggie Gallagher: Freedom fighter
How does the National Organization For Marriage's Maggie Gallagher, a career anti-gay, see herself? Well, she thinks that her work resembles that of legendary human rights activist, freedom fighter, measured thinker, and Rent lyric... ...Vaclav Havel, natch. This from the...
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04/10/2009
Wake up, Maggie: A redux
Since Maggie Gallagher is all over the news this week, defending her group's resoundingly rejected ad (still at 1 star and 99% negative comments on YouTube, even though stats show that 6,400+ of the views have come via NOM's own...
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04/08/2009
Maggie vs. Magnanimous treatment of gay people
Oh, Maggie Gallagher. Her latest marriage ad is a total joke. Seriously, go see for yourself -- just go check out the National Organization for Marriage YouTube page where it's proudly posted. The comments are 95%+ against them, with even...
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04/07/2009
NOM readies new ad; we don't bother waiting
The National Organization For Marriage has just made this announcement: In the wake of the Iowa Supreme Court decision and Vermont Legislature's action, the National Organization for Marriage will tomorrow launch a new national ad campaign that highlights how same-sex...
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04/03/2009
As far as 'culture wars' go, Iowa is NOM's 'Nam:
Maggie and Brian, career advocates for bias, have some less-than-welcoming thoughts regarding the fantastic Iowa ruling: “Injustice has been served today,” said Brian Brown, NOM. “The gay marriage movement has once again used the power of the courts to push...
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02/27/2009
Audio: Yes, Mags, your views surely will fall out of favor. Now ask yourself why.
Prominent anti-marriage equality activist Maggie Gallagher recently addressed a law class at Spokane's Gonzaga University. Here's a short snippet that we'd like to address: Okay, so Maggie's basic assertion is that marriage equality for same-sex couples will eventually make her...
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12/23/2008
United we could stand, but divided is what they've been working since fall
You know we gays are always accused of "hijacking" the African American civil rights movement? Yea, well check out this latest quip from major Prop 8 proponent Maggie Gallagher and tell us who is REALLY exploiting race here: "It's appalling...
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12/10/2008
YOU. HAVE. GOT. TO. BE. KIDDING. ME!
Maggie Gallagher was instrumental in stripping gays of their right to marry in California. Maggie Gallagher has made a career out of being a professional anti-gay spokesperson. Since Prop 8's passage, Maggie Gallagher has gone on several shows, everywhere from...
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11/25/2008
This Thursday, we'll give thanks that we don't think like Maggie Gallagher
In her new column for TownHall, professional anti-gay personality Maggie Gallagher once again trots out all of the agreed-upon post-Prop 8 talking points. "Gays are the intolerant ones" -- check "It's unfair to target religion" -- check "livelihoods threatened, artists...
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11/16/2008
Video: Names begin with 'M', similarities end there
Over the years, we've written more than a few pieces about Maggie Gallagher and how flawed and offensive we find her logic to be. We've also written some things about Michelangelo Signorile and how reasoned and sensible he comes across...
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10/28/2008
Dumbed-down logic: The true danger from which we should protect children!
Want a clear example of how our opposition ferociously wars not only against same-sex marriage and gay rights, but also intellecualism in general? Well check out the following. This is a clip from a recent California marriage panel; the speaker...
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12/10/2007
'Wake up Maggie': Both a song's first line and an anti-gay's needed action
Prominent anti-gay activist Maggie Gallagher -- who you might remember from her stealth stint on the Bush administration's payroll in order to secretly promote "healthy marriage" initiatives -- has given an interview with Focus on the Family's Citizenlink, wherein she...
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10/10/2007
Wherein Focus puts marriage on deathwatch
In our years covering marriage issues, we've seen all sorts of fear-mongering from the "pro-family" set. However, this latest from Focus on the Family might just be the most "sky is falling"-like piece of anti-marriage equality rhetoric we have ever...
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