Maggie Gallagher is all butthurt because the editor of AfterElton.com said this:
I’ve been really understanding of Maggie Gallagher since meeting her. I may vehemently disagree with her on every point, but I did think the rhetoric could become more civil. Less name calling, more substance. But honestly, her latest just ticks me off to no end. “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, gay-marriage advocates did. I responded to the challenge.” Wait our turn, Maggie? On civil rights? While teenagers kill themselves each day because they feel less than? That’s condescending and heartless. Monstrous, actually.
Maggie responds, disbelieving:
It’s “monstrous” to oppose gay marriage.
Yes, Maggie. Did you even read what he wrote? The thing about the kids killing themselves because they “feel less than,” which is caused, ultimately, by the anti-gay demagogues at the top, like yourself, who seed hate into the discourse every single day of their lives, and then expect to be viewed as free and clean when that trickles down and ends up leaving a bodycount of gay teenagers? Or are Religious Right figures such as yourself just so desensitized to the effects of your work that you don’t even notice anymore?
And the uncivil dialogue is my fault, in his view. That’s where we are.
Yep. For a little perspective on how clean Maggie’s hands are not, here’s David Badash with a quick rundown:
Maggie Gallagher, the co-founder and former chairman of the board of NOM, the National Organization For Marriage, the president of the anti-gay Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, a signatory of the Manhattan Declaration which demands Christians break the law if it goes against the Bible, the woman who was paid but did not disclose tens of thousands of dollars by the George W. Bush administration to write in favor of “traditional” marriage, the woman who has lied about her support of ex-gay therapy, the woman who ruled over NOM during the period its corporate policy was to stoke racism and use race to as a wedge issue to strengthen opposition to same-sex marriage, and then when news of their race-baiting strategy broke called it a “non-story” for a “slow news day,” the woman who has spent much of her professional career taking millions of dollars from the Roman Catholic and Mormon Churches and radical right wing think tanks and hate groups, and parlaying all these funds and contacts into an extraordinarily lucrative career with a goal of ending same-sex marriage and divorcing all same-sex couples, demonizing LGBT people and maintaining our second-class citizenship while ensuring that children across America and around the world continue to be bullied to death…
Ugh.
Wow! I thought my resume was impressive!
To the word monstrous, I would add hypocritical. But let’s move on to her good buddy, Frank Schubert. There was a profile in the Chronicle on friday. I was so pissed I dashed off one of my letters in about 20 minutes– unuslaly quick for me. it was published today and applies to clearly to Her bovinity.
Your profile of Frank Schubert, architect of Prop. 8, illustrates the irony and hypocrisy of the anti-marriage equality campaigns.
Schubert is a Catholic on his second marriage. His first was annulled, despite two children, because divorce is a sin. He claims to represent the forces of morality, yet his Prop. 8 campaign was a feast of lies, distortions, and gays-are-gonna-get-your-children fear mongering. He “defends” marriage by preventing people from being married, yet has no visible interest in our 40% divorce rate. Every child deserves a married mother and father, yet our 40% illegitimacy rate doesn’t merit his attention.
He loves his lesbian sister, yet would deny her and her partner the rights that he enjoys, and that Newt Gingrich, Larry King, Rush Limbaugh, Elizabeth Taylor, and Glynn Wolfe have also enjoyed– 52 times (!!!!). He loves his sister’s children so much that he would deny them the legal and social protections that having married parents would give them.
Exactly how much irony and hypocrisy are required before America admits that the anti-marriage campaigns have nothing to do with marriage, and everything to do with anti-gay bigotry, whether disguised as “sincere religious belief” or admitted for what it so clearly is.
Mrs. Srivistav seems to be getting desperate since she feels the need to scream and play victimhood every time someone writes or says something critical about her.
Outstanding letter, Ben!
Maggie, when NOM spends as much time demonising divorcees as they do LBGT people then we might talk again about civility.
I doubt that will happen because fundamentally, NOM do not care that much for the issue of divorce. It is not seen as changing the nature of marrige. So ALL the rhetoric about the children, the effect on society, the long term breakdown of the family, none of that matters so long as the one-man one woman nature of marriage is retained. The help they could give to straight couples, the campaigns they run, is foregone and the vast anti-gay industrial complex is directed towards the tiny number of same sex couples who want to equal access to the great institution of marriage. Now THAT is monstrous.
NOM et al is NOT going down without a fight!!! Do NOT FORGET the Regnerus “Gays make bad parents” $875,000 study funded by the Witherspoon Institute and the Bradley Foundation and issued June 11, 2012. We all must continue to fight this so that it does not take root.
If we don’t put Regnerus down now, we will be fighting this for the next 10 years like we did with Spitzer. As far as I know only ONE person filed an Ethics complaint with the American Sociological Association, Scott Rose of the New Civil Rights Movement.
You don’t have to be a member to file a complaint. Here is the link to their code of Ethics
http://www.asanet.org/about/ethics.cfm
Please request an Ethics Investigation of Mark Regnerus for saying as he has said in this comments to his paper, and in his paper and in the press that his research clearly shows that Married Heterosexual Parents raising their biological children IS the Gold Standard for the best outcomes for children and every other family is less than that.
BUT Mark Regnerus only found 2, only TWO people who were raised by a straight up lesbian couple for 18 years. He did not find stable partnered lesbian and gay headed families, and since he did not find them, how the hell can he say that they are “Not as Good?”
Look for the articles in July here. Look for the original paper and then people who commented on the paper including Regnerus.
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/social-science-research/recent-articles/
Here is the e-mail address of the Executive at the American Sociological Association to file your complaint, just send an e-mail how darned hard is that?
Sally Hillsman Phone: (202) 383-9005(ext 316)
executive.office@asanet.org
Even, John Becker Wayne, please at LEAST you 3 guys file an ethics complaint. I read the internet a LOT and so far the only one I see who has done this is Scott Rose from The New Civil Rights Movement.
Everyone here at TWO do you want to fight this Regnerus study for the next 10 years like we did with Spitzer? Then get off your butts and file an Ethics Complaint with the American Sociological Association.
Read Scott Roses articles to give you background http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/category/scott-rose-2
FIGHT REGNERUS NOW OR FIGHT HIM FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS, TAKE YOUR PICK.
Was it “monstrous” to oppose interracial marriage? The people who did it back then didn’t think so. Likewise the people who currently oppose marriage equality don’t consider themselves monstrous. It doesn’t change the fact that they are.
Once more, radical anti-gay activist Gallagher is upset because her own exposed comments might put a dent in her paycheck. Money, money, money is her god. She will say and do whatever it takes to keep that cash cow going as long as she can. I pray for her.