Good As You: Maggie Gallagher Roundup
03/18/2011
Maggie's vote fetish: Constitutional fairness not willing partner
Maggie Gallagher: "Not even the gay rights folks believe that new poll [showing 53% support for marriage equality]. If the majority of Americans now support gay marriage, why is the gay rights lobby vigorously opposing a proposal to refer the...
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03/16/2011
Audio: Maggie's subtle slightings
Sometimes Maggie Gallagher's comments are more brazen, like when she admitted she sees homosexuality as "unfortunate", telling gays they can "always control [their] behavior" and suggesting that it's offensive to gays to not subject their lives and loves (and right)...
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03/08/2011
Video: Broken record otherwise booked, Maggie Gallagher takes #MARRYland TV slot
- The purposely strategic, deliberately divisive idea that "the black church™" has risen up in fierce opposition - A one billionth repeating of her "two great halves of humanity" claim - Reference to NOM's obviously skewed 54%-37% marriage poll -...
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03/07/2011
Video: Maggie Gallagher, HRC's Moulton talk marriage -- *his* marriage and her refusal to support the same
On C-Span this morn', Human Rights Campaign's Brian Moulton did a fantastic job handling Maggie Gallagher's continued rhetorical tactics (e.g. talking points denying animus' role in marriage bans, umpteenth repeating of her favorite "two great halves of humanity" line, claims...
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03/04/2011
Maggie all like, 'Huh? What? You don't like us voting on your rights? How weird.'
Of a certain Maryland Delegates support for a marriage referendum, Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart said this: [Del. Sam Arora's] support for a voter referendum if the measure passes is unconscionable. Yes, a referendum is legal and will almost assuredly be...
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03/03/2011
There's one person playing race cards and it's Maggie Gallagher
In light of the news that Maryland Delegate Sam Arora, an announced sponsor of the marriage equality bill, is considering switching to a "no" vote, Maggie Gallagher has resorted to a truly galling tactic: MAGGIE: “Secondly, as someone married to...
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Maggie Gallagher should be championing religious expression ruling. But instead...
If there's anyone who should be defending the Snyder v. Phelps ruling, it's Maggie Gallagher. All the time, we hear the aforementioned National Organization For Marriage chairperson talking about the need for more and greater defense of religious freedom, even...
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03/02/2011
Audio: Maggie on culture wars, Catholics, and her own clean hands
Two mildly interesting clips featuring Maggie Gallagher, both from a Catholic radio show out of South Florida. #1: Maggie's very novel definition of the right wing-declared "culture war," one which positions her lifestyle choice to resist the fair and equal...
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Segue, Genesis: Maggie again pits our civil equality against personal prayer
Maggie Gallagher writes to USA Today: Commentary writer Tom Krattenmaker sees the issue as "On gay rights, keep fighting or adapt?" But for those of us who are Christian, a better headline would be: "Genesis: continue fighting for it or...
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02/28/2011
Audio: What Maggie Gallagher said/didn't say in MD
Maggie at Friday's Maryland House hearing: Right, she all that. But how does Maggie "respect" gay people when legislators aren't listening? Well, she comes out and admits that she sees homosexuality as "unfortunate", tells gays that they can "always control...
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02/24/2011
Video: 'His left-wing lawyers he brought in from Harvard' #populismyeayea
[CBN] Oh, those pesky Harvard lawyers (coming from Maggie "Yale, Class of '82" Gallagher). Oh you gotta love that false, folksy populism.
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02/22/2011
Nu uh, Maggie Gallagher: You're not gonna blame us for foreskin!
Really, Maggie? You're seriously connecting the following independent push -- which has been met with diverse support and opposition that transcends all political, religious, gender, etc. lines -- to the modern civil marriage equality movement? The next big idea out...
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02/17/2011
Maggie lumps equality supporters in 'hardcore liberal Democrat' box; will surely deny NOM is partisan next chance she gets
Dear Republican, Libertarian, Independent, and centrist Democrats who support of marriage equality for same-sex couples: You do not exist. Maggie Gallagher has declared it to be so: "The truth is that anyone who is strongly pro-abortion rights or pro-gay marriage...
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02/14/2011
Happy Valentine's Day from Maggie Gallagher
"To me, it’s amazing, given the array of forces pushing for gay marriage and the weak response of most conservative politicians, that the American people have stubbornly dug in their heels on this question: Are two men in a union...
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02/12/2011
Maggie grades prez hopefuls; Potential noms not so NOM-pleasing
Pawlenty: D Thune: D+ Romney: D Ryan: C- Trump: D Santorum: A Gingrich: D McConnell: D Bachmann: D Daniels: D+ Barbour: D Bolton: F Those D's of course have nothing to do with party affiliation. And Ryan's C- aint for...
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02/09/2011
NOM's been chopping at CPAC tree; Maggie will still eat its fruits
The National Organization For Marriage may be on the official boycott list, prominently signing on to the coalition letter (assembled by NOM co-founder Robert George) that kicked off the boycott. But that minor point isn't stopping Maggie Gallagher from crossing...
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02/08/2011
Maggie forfeits. We win by default, right? #marryland
From the National Organization For Marriage's Maggie Gallagher: [SOURCE] Okay, M.G. But just don't talk to us about commitment (in more ways than one). *** *We, however, are toughing it out. To follow along live (assuming you have real player)...
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02/04/2011
We (c) Maggie's (a) & (b), raise a (p.s.)
I was struck by this comment that Maggie posted to the National Organization For Marriage's blog: And while I would let my six-year-old nephew take on the Swiss cheese logic at play, unfortunately he's at school. So you'll have to...
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02/03/2011
Maggie says we want constitutional ownership; we're not sure there's room on the mantle, what with all our happy gay marriage pics
In her fervor to paint a portrait of the false monolith known as "liberal," Maggie again gets it wrong: "Liberal elites are simply unused to having laws they care about declared unconstitutional. They own the courts. They own the Constitution....
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01/20/2011
Daniel Hernandez *is* an American hero. Stop zeroing in on his equal rights and worth, Maggie!
The National Organization For Marriage's Maggie Gallagher knows who she considers to be a hero. This from her latest syndicated column: "I am not a hero," said Daniel Hernandez, one of the heroes of the Tucson shooting. He's the intern...
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01/12/2011
Flashback: When Maggie met Hedwig, Johnny Rotten, and Ezra's apparent superior
(2:07, clip 1): "::laughs:: I don't put down rules and regulations" [on marriage] (3:42, clip 2): On the charge that she's profiting off marriage: "I wish" And then a convoluted conversation about same-sex marriage, homosexuality, and gender identity that shows...
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Maggie calls us gloaters, then pulls post. Which kind of makes us wanna gloat, frankly.
For some reason NOM abruptly pulled this post from Maggie Gallagher (which referenced this here website as the "gloaters"): (*Thanks to Bob Barnes for capturing it!) Interesting that she responds to this one thing we wrote, with a frivolous aside...
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01/10/2011
At least one 'Economist' agrees: Maggie should start stashing away some of her gay marriage profit
Just like a growing body of the public, the courts, and fair-minded politicos, The Economist's readers and editors have determined that Evan Wolfson's arguments in favor of the Freedom To Marry greatly outweigh Maggie Gallagher's dogged attempts to NOM equality's...
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01/04/2011
Hetero missteps = homo wedding rings, and other theories conducive to Maggie's ambitions
Yes, in the following nugget, Maggie Gallagher is quite undeniably suggesting that same-sex marriages could only take root in a world where human beings experience a "growing disconnect between sex, love, babies, mothers, fathers and marriage": "Of course marriage is...
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01/03/2011
Biden misspoke, says she who misspeaks every time she purports to 'protect marriage'
"I think the country's evolving, and I think there's an inevitability for a national consensus on gay marriage." -Vice President Joe Biden You may agree with the Vice President's thoughts, as most of us who read the writing on the...
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12/15/2010
Maggie says NOM doesn't censor; So it's just coincidence that all approved comments agree with her?
Maggie Gallagher says of the National Organization For Marriage: "When you are confident you are right, you have no need or desire to censor alternative views, incidentally." So this writer says to Maggie: Okay, then let's see if this time,...
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12/07/2010
Maggie's advocacy: A 28-year fear of 'be back in thirty minutes'?
I recently heard a theory about Maggie Gallagher which suggested the National Organization For Marriage doyenne is super-obsessed with marriage matters because she believes, based on her own experience, that men are generally/ genuinely terrified of marriage. The theory went...
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12/01/2010
12/8: Catholics for Equality vs. Maggie for 'Culture war' gain$
Cool upcoming event from the newly-created Catholics For Equality group: Catholics for Equality Invites You to A Catholic Family Conversation on LGBT Issues Wednesday, December 8, 2010 8:30 - 10:00 PM (ET) Georgetown University Intercultural Center Auditorium WASHINGTON - LGBT...
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11/26/2010
No, no -- Maggie's not battling gay orientations. She just calls homosexuality 'unfortunate', 'controllable', and 'sinful' because she's bored.
In response to the Southern Poverty Law Center's latest anti-gay group coverage, Maggie Gallagher chimes in with these thoughts: “I’m very proud of the message that NOM has carried consistently and with great love and courage: which is that marriage...
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11/23/2010
Maggie spearheads law school program; spear's tip purposely pointed at 14th Amendment
Ave Maria School of Law, a Roman Catholic law school in Naples, Florida, has created something called the Center for Research on Marriage, Religion and Public Policy. A center that will be led by none other than the National Organization...
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11/11/2010
Video: Making amends with mid-'90s Maggie
These days she's all about a Federal Marriage Amendment, something she backed even before we on the equality side had a handful of marriage states and obviously before we had a viable Supreme Court case. A proposed federal ban that...
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Maggie Gallagher: Putting 'brave' face on basic benefit denial
Yesterday we showed you a couple of disconnects in the way Maggie Gallagher carries out her war on gay people's ring fingers. (1) We showed you how she claims she doesn't want to disrespect gay people in general, even though...
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11/10/2010
Video: In Oregon, Maggie wants to take her 'they'll call us bigots' claims off table; Elsewhere, the table is so crowded with her claims, it -- like NOM's house of cards -- is near collapse
Here's Maggie Gallagher speaking to Focus on the Family: "Gay activists treat Americans who disagree with them about same-sex marriage like bigots." [SOURCE] Maggie in her syndicated column: "When I entered this debate in 2003, gay marriage advocates scoffed at...
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Video: The truth is that there are two Maggie Gallaghers
Maggie Gallagher speaking at that same Oregon marriage panel that we showed you earlier: [fumcpdx] MAGGIE: "When I say the things I really believe are true and good and need to be pointed to, you hear that as condemnatory or...
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Video: Basic rights as a panel debate: Oregon edition
I've had the pleasure of seeing Basic Rights Oregon's Jeana Frazzini speak, and she's quite awesome. Here she is awesomely and ably speaking for *civil* marriage equality, despite Maggie Gallagher and Oregon state Rep. Dennis Richardson's largely faith-motivated attempts to...
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11/09/2010
Maggie's been stage-managing a marriage morality play for eons. Yet we're the inauthentic ones?!
The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was a contrivance that politicians had to put into the law if they wanted to prevent the federal rights that would obviously and fairly be granted to same-sex couples once marriage equality became a...
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11/02/2010
Audio: 'Iowa For Freedom' might win. But not with a clean conscience.
More deliberately anti-intellectual assessments of the Iowa judicial retention vote, this time from Maggie Gallagher: (click to play audio clip) *AUDIO SOURCE: Maggie Gallagher, segment 2 [Drew Mariani Show, 11/1/10] That whole "what is this, Russia?" question? It comes straight...
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10/27/2010
Maggie's reliably myopic glimpse at faith-based bullying
For the second time in as many weeks, Maggie Gallagher has dedicated her syndicated column to the matter of bullying and suicide, with an underlying intent of absolving the climate cultivated by anti-LGBT groups like her National Organization For Marriage...
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10/20/2010
Maggie's forecast calls gays a 'gathering storm' -- yet we're asked to overlook her atmospheric pressure?
In her latest syndicated column, Maggie Gallagher uses her one specific gay rights crusade, marriage inequality, to say that rhetoric like hers bears no responsibility for the climate that fosters anti-gay bullying, harassment, or tragic situations like suicide. And as...
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10/18/2010
Gallagher advises future Bucks; we advise you to hear what else she's said
After saying that she sees nothing "substantively wrong" in U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck's answer that being gay is essentially a choice (with a possibly birth component, like alcoholism), professional backer of marital bias Maggie Gallagher posits the following as...
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10/11/2010
Maggie = 'bullied' one, apparently; Also: down = up, apparently
"I think fundamentally we're just going to have to man-up on this one," ... "The one most repeated command in the Bible is 'be not afraid.' We really have to take these bullies on and show them that they can't...
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10/07/2010
Maggie Gallagher makes no moral distinctions. Except, you know -- when she does. Which is often.
For a complete rundown of Maggie Gallagher and Evan Wolfson's debate last night at Yale, check out Yale Daily News. Not much fodder. All what you'd expect, really. But we do want to isolate and focus on this one part:...
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10/01/2010
We appreciate your heart, Maggie. Now stop messing with people's minds/rights/marriages/shared nations!
Maggie just left this comment on the NOM Blog: [SOURCE] (H/t: Clark Mitchell) So first and foremost: I totally believe her. I think the vast majority of us know that Maggie Gallagher does not wish harm, much less death, on...
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09/30/2010
From wedding to retirement plans: Maggie just has ideas about all milestones, huh?
This speculation/activist view of the court comes from our ol' two step partner Maggie Gallagher: "How could Judge Walker exhibit such gross bias and deliver such an injudicious opinion? The answer appears to be, in part, that it was his...
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09/29/2010
Maggie on the record: To grasp her desired future, let's look back
These days, Maggie Gallagher is more mum about the specifics that she would and would not deprive to same-sex couples. But pre-NOM, M.G. had a few more things to say on the subject. So we thought we'd take a brief...
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09/13/2010
Catholic Gallagher ever more unabashed about her faith-based motivations
Maggie Gallagher's every working day is built around denying same-sex couples of a CIVIL marriage. But that doesn't stop her from building her entire house of cards atop a non-negotiably religious foundation: "For marriage, this is a unique moment. In...
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Maggie & Harry's personal Christian beliefs, passed off as acceptable civil policy foundation
From yesterday's "Pray & Act" webcast: (H/t: RightWingWatch) *** **SEE ALSO: RWW has video of Chuck Colson, Jim Garlow, Lou Engle, and others: Pray and Act: Dirty Tricks, Stonewall, 7 Mountains, and Biblical Economics [RWW]
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09/02/2010
Maggie Gallagher: 'A man who committed sodomy may have lost his soul, be he did not lose his gender'
Not sure when or where or why she said it. But according to Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler Jr., writing in the 2008 book The Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics: Surveying the Evidence, National Organization For Marriage chair Maggie...
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08/30/2010
Video: Bar-Barry/Ians at the gate
From the awesome Rob Tisinai: Maggie Gallagher Meets St. Peter [Waking Up Now] *** **Headline reference.
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08/27/2010
Maggie's self-appointed job: Stopping gay kin, stopping gay Ken
"We respect Ken Mehlman's right to his personal life. Supporting gay marriage, however, is a very different and very public matter. The fight over same-sex marriage really isn't about Mr. Mehlman's personal life. Marriage, as a public legal status, is...
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