Got an hour? Well it's a rainy Friday and this writer's tired and kind of meh, so I don't wanna write an epic post that will fill that time. Sorry. It's been a busy week. And I drank last night. I'm human, not machine.
But perhaps you'll instead want to spend sixty minutes or so with Maggie Gallagher's favorite sparring partner, Andrew Sullivan, as he opines on the politics of gayness. You might agree, you might scream in frustration. But whatever you do, just shhhhh -- I'm going to try to take a nap.
G'night:
Andrew Sullivan, "The ...
Without explanation or any commentary beyond a headline, Maggie Gallagher has today used her space on the National Review's "Corner" blog to link to a video of Noam Chomsky. The subject? The one thing that Maggie makes tougher for those same-sex couples who have been lucky enough to find it:
A sweet vid, for sure. But why did Maggie, America's most public opponent of gay people's legal lovin', linking to it now? The vid's already several months old, and it's not like Chomsky is a socially conservative ally. And social injustice is a big theme in Noam's clip. ...
Fred Karger has a question for "traditional marriage's" biggest champion, Maggie Gallagher:
"Are You Even Married, Maggie?
No one has ever seen your husband. You attend countless marriage events, chock full of married couples, celebrating marriage, yet you always, always show up alone.
I had the displeasure of attending your recent presentation at the CATO Institute in Washington, DC. I was amazed to see that you don't wear a wedding ring. No rings on any fingers. Where is your alleged husband? Why no ring?"
Open Letter to Maggie Gallagher [Huff Po]
A perfectly fair question for a public marriage advocate. After all, NOM's ...
Maggie Gallagher has printed yet another piece that paints pro-marriage equality politicians as the enemy of the Catholic Church. Fine. Let her. It's starting to look silly at this point.
However, we do want to look at these two lines from Mag's latest:
"If [the Catholic Charities situation] were left up to ordinary gay people, I'm betting it would all turn out very different. Live and let live is the American impulse across ideological and moral disagreements." [Source]
Why these two lines? Well, because it's about the most self-unaware assessment that someone like Maggie could offer to this situation. The last ...
How many same-sex couples obtained marriage licenses today in D.C.? According to the AP, about 150:
150 same-sex couples seek marriage licenses in DC [AP]
So let's see: 300 people. Or as it looks in Maggie Gallagher and Tony Perkins' heads:
Although we're not entirely sure that's enough. Can someone look in their copy of the Homosexual Agenda and tell me how many of us a day it takes to destroy national capitals via our civil happiness? It's on like page 79 or something -- after "How to silence Christianity by simple laws that protect people from getting their ass ...
What kind of comments can one find on the National Organization For Marriage's Facebook page? Well, mixed in with the standard talking points are things like....
The direct approach:
The denial of gay people's moral compasses:
The anti-American idea that takes the concept of a Federal Marriage Amendment to a whole new level:
The obedience to NOM's strict instruction to not refer to marriage bans as what they truly are:
The belief that we equality activists are just too dense to understand their <sarcasm> thoroughly intellectual and oh so highly nuanced </sarcasm> "protect marriage" stances:
The familiar "gays = child molesters" meme:
And ...
Or, I should say, the marriage rights you haven't even been given yet.Between 125 and 150 people rallied at West Virginia's state capitol, demanding a constitutional referendum to define marriage as between a man and a woman:
"The Family Policy Council of West Virginia, which organized the rally, says the Legislature is bottling up measures that would allow the vote.
The crowd was addressed by speakers from national groups and by House Minority Leader Tim Armstead, R-Kanawha, who has tried to force a House vote on the referendum.
The state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union says ...
West Virginia anti-equality advocates took a hit yesterday in the state house. So tomorrow, they'll bring out the big guns:
WHO: The Family Policy Council of West Virginia will hold a press conference during its "Let Us Vote" marriage rally featuring Maggie Gallagher, President of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), Randy Wilson, National Field Director for Family Research Council (FRC) and Jeremy Dys, President and General Counsel of the Family Policy Council of West Virginia. Several West Virginia lawmakers have also been invited to speak.
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WHAT: Almost half of West Virginia's state senators have signed on as sponsors to ...
Bill O'Reilly, Margaret Hoover, Charles Krauthammer, Dick Cheney, Cindy McCain "and her silly daughter," Mitt Romney, Scott Brown, Prop 8 defense attorneys, Maggie Gallagher, Stand For Marriage Maine, and Warren Throckmorton.
The above might be a list of competitors that we'd never dare to challenge in a game of Trivial Pursuit: Ronald Reagan edition. Or it could be a rundown of Keith Olbermann's list of people who the Nielsen ratings should never meter. But today it serves one purpose and one purpose only: It's the list of people who uber-far-righite Linda Harvey thinks are too leftist when it comes ...
The National Organization For Marriage has found its next Golden State golden opportunity. Though this time it's not a ballot initiative that strips gays of a civil right. Instead it's California Attorney General candidate John Eastman, for whom NOM will next week co-sponsor a Washington D.C. fundraiser. This from NOM's Maggie Gallagher:
Former attorney general Ed Meese, Rep. Michelle Bachman, and half the conservative establishment are hosting a fundraiser for [Eastman] on Monday, February 22, at the Capitol Hill Club in D.C.
When: Monday, February 22, 2010, 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Where: Capitol Hill Club, McKinley Room, 300 First Street SE, Washington, ...
This from NOM's latest e-blast:
Maggie Gallagher was at the Cato Institute this week debating Andrew Sullivan, who said the city council is right. He said taxpayer funds shouldn't be used to "discriminate" against gay couples. But who is it that is getting hurt here? Who is being helped by driving one of the best charities for deprived children out of the public square? Will one gay couple really be better off because no Catholic adoption and foster care service exists?
And yet the politician in the D.C. city council ruled that to let a Catholic institution be Catholic, and still help ...
My favorite exchange of yesterday's Cato Institute forum on gay conservatives came in response to columnist Maggie Gallagher's claim that permitting same-sex couples to marry would invariably leads somehow to government intrusion into religion of the sort that all conservatives... ...
Politics.co.uk has previewed what Tory MP Nick Herbert will say today at a Cato Institute forum on Conservatives and gays in which blogger Andrew Sullivan and National Organization for Marriage President Maggie Gallagher will also participate. Herbert will slam the mistakes made by Tories in failing to be inclusive of gays.Herbert will say, according to the website: "I am not here to preach or to interfere in your affairs. I am here neither to tea party nor to go clubbing. But I can tell you what happens to a party when it closes the door to sections ...
As expected, there was no shortage of fireworks today at the Cato Institute forum on whether there's a place for gays in the conservative movement, especially between Andrew Sullivan and Maggie Gallagher, the conservative columnist and marriage equality foe. But... ...
In a syndicated column published in March of 1998, Maggie Gallagher said the following about a lower court ruling that sided in favor of equality as it applies (or at least should apply) to the Boy Scouts:
Uhm, okay. But the only problem for Clinton era Maggie? Pushing for federal interference is exactly what she'd move on to do with her career only a few short years later! Because let's be honest: In modern-day America, no attempt to use the federal government against a certain group of people has been any more militant, fear-inducing, agenda-laden, or costly that ...
At noon today (eastern time), openly gay writer Andrew Sullivan, Britain's openly-gay shadow environment secretary Nick Herbert, and openly equality-hostile Maggie Gallagher will appear at Washington's Cato Institute to discuss gay people's role in conservative politics and society in general. Come back then to watch it all live:
Is There a Place for Gay People in Conservatism and Conservative Politics? [Cato]
**UPDATE: Politics.co.uk has a preview of what Herbert will say: Don't close the door on gays, the Tories tell America
**UPDATE, 12PM: The video isn't embeddable. So the best we can do for now is to bring you ...
My husband and I have three little nephews in our life, ranging in ages from one to nearly-eight. All three were in our wedding. All three are around us on a regular basis. All three have known us since they were cognizant as being just as much of a couple as anyone else in the family.
But if Maggie Gallagher had her way, she'd indoctrinate these three little boys into believing that our marriage is a lie. Because to America's social conservatives, the only values worth valuing are the ones that devalue gay couples, and the only families that ...
NH House to vote on marriage equality repeal Wednesday. Rejection recommended.
New York gets Brainwashed.
Nodar Kumaritashvili, the Georgian luger who was killed at the Olympics, told his father he was terrified of the Whistler luge track: "He called me before the Olympics, three days ago, and he said, 'Dad, I'm scared of one of the turns.' I said, 'Put your legs down on the ice to slow down,' but he said if he started the course he would finish it. ... He was brave."
Andrew Sullivan and Maggie Gallagher to ...
Republicans, Southerners, and those who are 65+ are still wildly more likely to stand against us. This according to a new ABC News/WaPo poll:
Post-ABC Poll: Views on gay marriage steady, more back civil unions [WaPo]
If this poll doesn't scare the crap out of professional anti-equality activist Maggie Gallagher, then she's not paying attention. Perhaps because she's otherwise occupied with the top secret building of a time machine.
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