Good As You: Maggie Gallagher Roundup
10/19/2012
'Why won't Mitt divide with social issues?' wonders American who's made living doing just that
"Abortion and gay marriage should be helping put Romney in the White House. Instead, in his consultant-tested messaging, Romney is conveying discomfort with his own position, and in that process, he risks communicating to values voters that he cannot be...07/13/2012
Maggie makes case for 'non-scary' Huckabee; 'not scary?' ask my ring finger, peace of mind
Despite what you (or she) might think, I actually do tend of think o Maggie Gallagher as someone who knows a thing or two about conservative politics. This, however, is just a ridiculous suggestion: But if you ask me, the...07/05/2012
Maggie tells us 'not this, not now' as if we're spoiled teenagers seeking a later curfew
" A society that is serious about marriage would gently stand up to gay people and say “not this, not now.” Changes in law are hard to undo, once they are institutionalized. I did not decide to debate gay marriage,...06/13/2012
Maggie Gallagher's work is 'sustaining civilization itself'; God can retire
In this self-victimizing word soup, Maggie Gallagher works to tell her supporters that Genesis is against gays, that all people are called to give themselves to someone of the opposite sex, that equality activists are trying to silence others, and...05/31/2012
Gallagher thinks her marriage 'defense' lessens confusion; is confused
Maggie Gallagher's heading to Minnesota this weekend, where she will make her (Catholic) case for why she is right and the rest of us are simply "confused": [Chesterton Academy] The age of confusion? Well maybe, Maggie, this debate is "confused"...05/10/2012
Maggie denies she plays victim role, immediately plays victim role again
For those of us who have followed her so closely for so many years, it is beyond ridiculous to hear Maggie Gallagher claiming it's "absurd" to think that she sees herself as a victim: No, [Andrew Sullivan], I do not...04/19/2012
Maggie bemoans frustrating political distractions; her keyboard apparently a mirror
Maggie Gallagher writing in her latest syndicated column: "Our endless media culture is dominated by irrelevant distractions purposely made up to confuse voters. ...Americans are increasingly frustrated with our political process. We want to be proud of our country. And...02/08/2012
One last thing about the Maggie Gallagher article...
While I think Mark Oppenheimer's profile manages to ably walk that tough line between revelatory and fair, if there's one place I would push back a little it's in regards to the bit of a pass that some in the...And now it's written: The definitive Maggie Gallagher profile
The long, kind of strange tell of Maggie Gallagher, quite ably told. Go read Mark Oppenheimer's piece, in full: The making of gay marriage’s top foe [Salon] *HIGHLY RELATED: Maggie's advocacy: A 28-year fear of 'be back in thirty minutes'?...02/07/2012
Maggie Gallagher has used the word 'bigot' more than any modern gay activist has
As to be expected, Maggie Gallagher is responding to today's historic Ninth Circuit decision by focusing on self-victimization rather than the constitutional matters fleshed out in the 100+ page opinion: [SOURCE: NRO's "The Corner" blog] No, Maggie: Just constitutionally wrong....01/23/2012
Newt's 'family values' hypocrisy (temporarily) bridges chasm between gays, Gallagher
Even while the National Organization For Marriage continues to congratulate Gingrich and applaud him for signing their Marriage Pledge, Maggie Gallagher -- NOM's most prominent face, founder, former chair, and current special projects personality (Marriage ADA, most notably) -- continues...01/17/2012
In which I agree with Maggie Gallagher: Newt's a liability for social conservatives
Finally, Maggie Gallagher says something with which I fully agree and have, in fact, been saying myself for months. That is: That if the social conservatives get behind Newt Gingrich, like some still want, then they will be forfeiting their...01/05/2012
Video: NOM reruns two-year-old clip; didn't get more cogent with age
I'm not sure why NOM just snatched, isolated, and reposted the following Fora.tv clip from 2009, since I've always considered it once of the more callous (e.g. listen to how condescending Maggie is to Keith Boykin) and obtuse (e.g. "if...12/15/2011
NOM EXPOSED: This person claims 'traditional marriage' advocacy hurts careers; She's sometimes right.
GO READ: This person claims 'traditional marriage' advocacy hurts careers; She's sometimes right. [NOM Exposed]12/09/2011
Hypocrisy, thy name is Maggie Gallagher
So get this one: Maggie Gallagher has taken to the NOM blog and put up an post which, in the abstract, declares that a link is not an endorsement: Some in the gay blogosphere are trying to assert that NOM--or...12/01/2011
NOM Exposed: 'Victory' at any cost
As you might have noticed by the Thanksgiving video I first teased and then exposed right here on N-E, Maggie Gallagher has launched yet another side project. Joining her silly, misguided, offensive, and going-nowhere "Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance," the NOM co-founder...11/23/2011
Video: As promised, Maggie Gallagher's Thanksgiving 'advice'
I told you it was coming. Now here it is, released under an American Principles Project label rather than NOM's: I'll stick with Heloise, Martha Stewart, and "Dear Abby," thank you very much. **NOTE: APP is another project of NOM...11/22/2011
Audio: If you show up with your same-sex spouse, you're victimizing Maggie Gallagher and Jen Roback Morse
Last night, I told you about NOM's plans to launch a video instructing same-sex marriage opponents on how to handle their equality-supportive families around the Tofurky Day table. Now comes more background, courtesy of a radio chat between NOM's Maggie...11/03/2011
Audio: Maggie Gallagher's single most instructive sentence
If you know learn nothing else this year about Maggie Gallagher and her motivations for constantly beating the self-victimized drum that casts people who oppose equality as the ones who are being penalized by same-sex marriage, then at least learn...10/19/2011
Audio: Maggie Gallagher identifies herself as a 'solo mother'
For years, "culture war" watchers have wondered why "traditional marriage" advocate Maggie Gallagher, despite using her own personal life story in most every stump speech she gives, never mentions husband Raman Srivastav. People have also pondered why she doesn't wear...10/05/2011
Maggie honing in on NC; less 'Tar Heel,' more 'tar certain people's ring fingers'
And now Maggie Gallagher will tell North Carolinians why they should write discrimination into their state's constitution: "You're children are going to be watching you, they're going to watching whether you think God's truth about marriage is important -- you...09/30/2011
'The curious moral authority of [one who collects paycheck for shunning] gay men'
In a column that reads a bit like an emotional breakdown after years of stirring up divisive tension against certain kinds of people, the modern anti-equality movement's most visible figure, Maggie Gallagher, ponders her role in civil rights history. Here's...09/20/2011
'8' it up: Maggie was in mezzanine, on-stage, seared in audience's consciousness
As you might have already heard per Andy Towle's thorough report and visual illustrations, NOM's Maggie Gallagher actually showed up last night at the Eugene O'Neill Theater and watched a cast of actors play out the Prop 8 trial. If...09/14/2011
'Yay, personal religious condemnation as public policy,' essentially says Maggie Gallagher
"Nobody appears to know how many Orthodox Jews there are in [New York's 9th] district, but we hope to have some data on that, and on how many voters said gay marriage was an issue for them. But really when...08/25/2011
On gag reflexes, cesspools, and NOM's odd idea of 'victory'
Over on the official Facebook wall, National Organization For Marriage staffers have posted the following: Okay, so the free speech thing I can understand. I reject it, because Jerry Buell's situation didn't involve whether or not he had the right...08/24/2011
National Organization for [Resisting Anti-Discrimination Laws]?
Does Maggie Gallagher still oppose basic anti-discrimination protections for gays? These days, as she invests so much stock in denying civil marriage rights to gays, you're unlikely to hear the National organization For Marriage chair say she stands against anti-discrimination...08/12/2011
Maggie seeks *more* Bachmann-mouthed marriage opposition; Veruca Salt all like, 'Wow that's greedy'
Many of us have many things to say about Michele Bachmann. But when it comes to marriage equality, most of us would agree that she's been pretty darn consistent in her opposition towards basic civil fairness. At a state senator,...07/21/2011
Video: Maggie runs through DOMA songbook; doesn't sound like national anthem to me
She starts with a polygamy fear card. Then it's on to the false idea that the pro-equality side has reduced the discourse to accusing their opposition of nothing but "bigotry and discrimination." Soon after, she moves on to the short-sighted...07/20/2011
Maggie serves 'chilled First Amendment' course; makes me respond, crave gazpacho (not necessarily in that order)
In a piece for National Review Online titled "The Chilling of Our First Amendment Rights," Maggie Gallagher starts off with this: The First Amendment is more than a legal guarantee. It is a culture — a key American value —...07/18/2011
Us: 'Hey, this person said this'; Maggie: 'STOP ATTACKING US!!!!'
Seriously -- is Maggie Gallagher even capable of engaging in political debate, circa 2011, without resorting to the intellectually disingenuous idea that her "side" is being attached? This from Politico: “The more that they attack Michele Bachmann on these grounds,...06/29/2011
Maggie endorses a lie about govt. nature, there will be CONSequences
"Gay marriage is not an increase in liberty; it is a government takeover of an institution that government did not create and should not redefine. When the government endorses a lie about human nature, there will be consequences." - Maggie...06/27/2011
Audio: Sandra Lee's semi-homemade ring finger sparks Maggie's concern
Of all the tactics Maggie Gallagher tossed out in NY, this oft repeated nugget might've taken the cake in terms of both political pointlessness and personal insolence: SOURCE: Issues Etc: 6/22/11 [iTunes] "I wouldn't question his religious convictions, but --...06/21/2011
Since when is direct ballot the default American position?!
If I knew, with 100% certitude, that New Yorkers would approve marriage equality by a hefty margin, I still wouldn't want it going to a vote. And that goes for everyone's marriage, not just my own. Because certain things are...06/13/2011
Maggie vs. 'sexually disorganized' culture
“Sex, babies and marriage are not just intensely personal matters – they are civilizational ones, too.” “Children are our future”...“When a civilization becomes sexually disorganized, it cannot seem to channel the erotic energy of the young into making stable, loving...06/09/2011
Video: Maggie says it's 'really fun to win'; we agree, which is why we chose winning cause
Us: Six states and the nation's capital with full marriage equality, several other states with civil unions (which groups like NOM also oppose), a historic federal court victory after a defense so puny it even shocked us, increasingly favorable polling...05/20/2011
'Pick a girl, love her, make a family': Maggie's telling take on 'the boxes we've constructed'
Maggie Gallagher, circa 2003. In a back and forth with gay writer Jonathan Rauch, the now-National Organization For Marriage gave this flippant advice to those "self-identifying as homosexual": [SOURCE] To which Rauch ably responded: [SOURCE] But then, of course, Maggie...05/19/2011
Maggie Gallagher now policing people's intentions
This is the sum of Maggie's latest commentary from National Review's "The Corner" blog: Why is it neither of the two men pushing for gay marriage in New York are interested in marrying the person they love? Cuomo and Bloomberg...05/17/2011
Maggie, in respite from faulting those who won't hush equality support, faults he who hushed his equality support
Writing for the Huffington Post, Jonathan Miller, former State Treasurer of Kentucky (1999-2007) and current Secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, comes out for marriage equality: "Yep, I'm for gay marriage. I've lived a lie for most of my...Maggie slips 'b-f***ing 101' into post; says more about own views than her opposition's
Believe it or not, Maggie Gallagher recently used the following phrase in a NOM Blog post, as a way of describing inclusive sex education curriculum: And she wasn't referencing someone else's words either. At least not accurately. Because the source...05/10/2011
Maggie writes 'stigmatize, marginalize & repress' into Prop 8 script; miscasts roles
Pollen. Ragweed. Dander. Cadbury eggs and Matzoh crackers. For Focus on the Family and their "protect marriage" ally Maggie Gallagher, responsibility for civil discrimination is perhaps the most reliable catalyst for spring (and year-round) allergies: [O]n Friday, two-time gymnastics gold...05/04/2011
Maggie in '06: When admitting she's out to 'save Catholic marriage' was less politically risky
From time to time, we criticize National Organization For Marriage Chair Maggie Gallagher for refusing to acknowledge that her (and her organization's) fundamental reason for opposing CIVIL equality lies not in constitutional reads but rather in canonical law. Because it's...05/02/2011
'Little popular support in RI,' says Maggie; 'Stop stealing my gig,' says Pinocchio
All credible polling shows a majority of Rhode Islanders supporting marriage equality over marital bias, with some polls putting the pro-fairness margin at as high as 59%. But when has National Organization For Marriage chair Maggie Gallagher ever let a...04/21/2011
We're not the only ones paying price for Gallagher's career choice
Just in terms of mechanics alone, I can't imagine why anyone would pay $1200 to hear Maggie Gallagher speak on marriage. And that's not to slight Maggie's public speaking ability -- honestly. It's just that she literally gives the same...04/20/2011
Maggie 'homosexuality is a sexual disability' Gallagher doesn't get why you don't appreciate her exchanges
Of an exchange she had with Rep. Quigley (D-IL) at least week's offensive DOMA hearing, National Org. For Marriage chair Maggie Gallagher writes: "I don't expect any gay marriage activist to appreciate this exchange, but I did. Gay parents can...04/19/2011
Rick Perry's false, derisive choice begets equally tuned blog post
Is this non-sequitur really something esteemed congressional hearing witness Maggie Gallagher supports?! [SOURCE] Gays framed as anti-opportunity. Gay weddings, which only bring more employment and more economic opportunity, presented as somehow anti-jobs. The whole tone = complete and utter denigration....04/15/2011
On jewelry and Maggie Gallagher's lack thereof
Here's the thing: I personally don't care if anyone wears a wedding ring or not. Everyone has their own symbols, customs, traditions, or what have you, and there is certainly no demand on funneling marital energy through a pair of...Maggie's #DOMA testimony: We got CSPAN Maggie, not Christian radio Maggie
Why, if DOMA is so great now, Maggie's first reaction was to call it "timid." Why she thinks it's right to tell gays they "can always control their behavior" -- "behavior" she admits she considers "unfortunate." Why she thinks both...04/14/2011
If Maggie Gallagher is to defend DOMA, let's have her defend her own record
Since it's been confirmed that NOM's Maggie Gallagher will top the witness list at tomorrow's House Judiciary Committee Hearing on DOMA, we have some of our own bullet points that we hope our friends on the committee (Nadler? Wasserman-Schultz? Conyers?)...04/08/2011
G-A-Y Exclusive: National Organization For Marriage tour organizer/Facebook moderator does startling about-face; Exposure to NOM could lead to unintended side effects
Louis Marinelli first came on our radar late last spring, when he started independently Tweeting under the name "NOMUpdates": Incendiary tweets where Louis (both on "NOMUpdates" and his followup accounts) used the highly-repudiated Paul Cameron's research to say that "gays...
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