SOUNDBITES — “The first question for me is: Are same-sex unions ‘marriages’? I’m against discrimination, I’m against hatred, I’m in favor of marriage equality, but I don’t think same-sex marriage is marriage. Therefore I think it is wrong for the government to insist, through the use of law, that we all believe that same-sex unions are marriages. … Marriage really matters because children need a mom and a dad. If you don’t have a strong marriage culture… opposite-sex unions go around creating children on a random basis. And children get hurt.” —Maggie Gallagher, explaining how her position against gay marriage is not discrimination (via)
maggie gallagher
“I’m against discrimination, I’m against hatred, I’m in favor of marriage equality, but I don’t think same-sex marriage is marriage”
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terrwill
Ah Maggot, you miserable vile old crunt…….Please don’t spew your poo about children. Your side would rather rip a 9 year old girl from her family, friends, schools, homes and any sembilince of a normal life to keep her from her Lesbian Mom. Show the children the love by having her cower in some dark room hidden away from the world not having seen daylight for months. Yeah thats what your kind and their “traditional values” embrace.
But two people who are statistically well above the norm in education and wealth who can provide a stable loving home providing any and all the children could ever need and “children get hurt”…….
I belive in karma and I believe that Satan has the darkest corner of hell reserved for vile scum like you who will suffer the tortures of eternal damnation for your actions whilst you pollute humanity with your hate and loathing………
tinkerbell
If she’s in favor of marriage equality, then she wouldn’t be working against giving us that equality. She’s a liar…a hateful person. She DOES hate gay folk and her actions speak MUCH louder than her rhetorical words. We will win and people like her will have their grandchildren looking back on them in shame.
Fitz
Her words are almost as hateful as your president’s.
Chitown Kev
“Marriage really matters because children need a mom and a dad. If you don’t have a strong marriage culture… opposite-sex unions go around creating children on a random basis.”
1) I guess Haggie Maggie would know that, right?
2) Would Maggie say that we have a “strong marriage culture” even now?
If the answer is mo (and it is) then you really can’t blame the gays for that, can you.
Also…if Miss Thang wasn’t hating and she doen’t like to discriminate, then explain why the messaging of the campaigns that NOM sponsors traffic and peddle the same shit that Anita Bryant did 30 years ago?
Cam
Typical B.S. it’s the same type of phoney cover as people that claim they aren’t racists, but are just against interacial marriage because it’s bad for the children.
Brian NJ
Civil laws are for everyone to share in equally with the same name. You don’t have to believe it is actually a marriage Maggie, your church doesn’t have to believe in it or call it marriage, but a secular government that I pay taxes to DOES have to call it everything it calls your marriage. Everything you get, I get, get it??
We are going to win this fight, and your name is going the way of the name of Anita Bryant — disgrace. Maggie’s grandchildren, meet Magpie, the most hated bigot of her generation.
ChrisM
With Maggie Gallagher’s outright stupid comments and the witnesses for ProtectMarriage speaking blatant nonsense, has anybody else been feeling extremely hopeful recently?
AJD
@Chitown Kev:
Also…if Miss Thang wasn’t hating and she doen’t like to discriminate, then explain why the messaging of the campaigns that NOM sponsors traffic and peddle the same shit that Anita Bryant did 30 years ago?
Because she doesn’t hate gay people, just as Anita Bryant said she didn’t hate gay people… Remember that the religious right’s definitions of “love” and “hate” differ from those of most other people.
AJD
This lady has truly mastered the art of sophistry.
terrwill
@ChrisM: I am hopefull all the way to the Supreme Court building…….then I kinda sorta lose hope………..
Robert, NYC
This vile neanderthal was once an unwed mother, yes she got banged out of wedlock who knows how many times. What a damn hypocrite and bigot bitch she is. Sure she believes in discrimination which is whey Prop. 8 and the defeats in Maine, New York and New Jersey succeeded. How sick are these people to think its not about discrimination? Putting the marriage equality side, what does she think it is if she’s spending millions of dollars to defeat equality legislation based on her biased religious cult beliefs? Not all straight couples can breed nor do some want to, so should they too be banned using her virtually non-existant logic? So if we did the same thing by starting a movement to ban divorce and interracial marriage (she is in one right now), would she then claim that we’re not discriminating against her? She’s lost the argument. As long as state governments recognize same-sex marriages where they are legal, her opinions or beliefs don’t count. She’s not the government.
rf
Maggie, they’re talking about you at the Perry trial. Your ears burning?
1EqualityUSA
Her guilt guides her every move. Her concern for children is genuine, but her motive is more personal. What does a gal like this do with her time?
ChrisM
Terrwill, I agree in part, but we also have to have faith that the Supreme Court will do the right thing. Eventually the right and fair side wins, why not now with Perry?
Besides, it fills me with an unspeakable joy to imagine Maggie Gallagher’s face as the Supreme Court rules bans on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, so I’d like to keep thinking it’s going to happen. 🙂
Mike in Asheville, nee "in Brooklyn"
Such double-speak dribble!
Maggot Gallagher certainly DID NOT believe: “Marriage really matters because children need a mom and a dad. If you don’t have a strong marriage culture… children get hurt” when as a single unmarried without a boyfriend she had her baby!
Fucking hypocritical homophobic bigot!
Wade macMorrighan
@ AJD: “Because she doesn’t hate gay people, just as Anita Bryant said she didn’t hate gay people…”
Hey, wouldn’t it be fun for a documentarian to produce a film comparing ol’ Mags’ to Anita Bryant, and even their statements with people who claim not to be racist, but really are? Oh, and to find evidence of the claims being made about us, now (such as Gay marriage will open up the door to bestiality, etc.), that was being spouted about during the interracial marriage conflicts and broadcast it for the world to see?
Personally, i believe that it’s important for gay people to remember Miss Gallagher and to be able to tell historians, as well as the next generation of gay kids what she was all about, and what she was doing to our lives–how harmful and evil she really was…and how deceptive, too!
Wade macMorrighan
A ChrisM: “Besides, it fills me with an unspeakable joy to imagine Maggie Gallagher’s face as the Supreme Court rules bans on same-sex marriage unconstitutional…”
Me too, Chris! Me too!!!!!!!!!! Maybe we’ll be lucky and, just like in Raiders of the Lost Arc, her face will melt off?!
terrwill
When is Maggot gonna get her Anita Bryant moment? I recently saw a clip from I guess the 70’s where she was pontificating about hating on the Gays and someone ran up and hit her right in her hateful mug with a pie……Her experession was priceless………
Can’t wait til someone goes up to Maggot and gives her a good swift kick to the balls……..
rf
@terrwill: Don’t advocate cruelty to animals, please.
Mike in Asheville, nee "in Brooklyn"
@No. 13 1EqualityUSA
We must have been posting at the same time as I missed yours while writing mine.
I take issue that Gallagher’s concern for children is genuine. Gallagher grabs onto children as an issue simply to promote her homophobia and bigotry.
Maggot Gallagher was, herself, an unwed mother — she raised her child with no husband, no boyfriend, no father figure! She is a hypocrite who believes that somehow she is special in that her decision to have a child outside of a heterosexual marriage is acceptable because she has, apparently, acceptable and exceptional motherhoodness that no other non-heterosexually married women have. She is an utter fraud who makes up her dribble to establish an income and career.
This new quote from Gallagher is just another attempt to cleanse the tarnish of bigotry on her [hypocritical] reputation. It is just double-speak:
I am for marriage-equality : I am against same-sex marriage :: I am an unwed mother : unwed mothers are hurting children
If Gallagher were truly sincerely concerned about children, she would be working to ensure that ALL children have loving families, instead, she would rather see orphans kept in orphanages than allow a loving individual or gay/lesbian couple adopt these children. That is not concern, that is hate. That’s why she is a Maggot.
Matthew
Um, I hate to point out the obvious, Maggie dear, but in a gay marriage, the conception and birth of a child is an incredibly deliberate act because without conscious effort, we can’t get pregnant. It takes a hell of a lot of planning. In a marriage between a man and a woman, you can create a child much more random basis, because they can get pregnant without really trying. Or does that refute your point and is therefore a totally unfit argument?
1EqualityUSA
It’s time to read, “Lord of the Flies” again.
1EqualityUSA
Mike in Asheville, nee “Brooklyn”, I agree with your every word. What was questioned in 13 was that guilt was her motivation for becoming the mag-monster, not holy virtue.
dizzy spins
The question for me is, “are marriages between obese people really marriages?” I’m against discrimination. Im against body fascism. But I don’t think fat people’s unions are the equivalent of fit people’s marriages. Therefore I think it is wrong for the government to insist, through the use of law, that we all believe that fat people should be allowed to get married. Marriage really matters because children need healthy parents who are good role models. If you don’t have a strong emphasis on fitness and exercise, you’re teaching terrible eating and lifestyle habits. And children get hurt.
Sorry Maggie Gallagher, but your lard butt makes you an unfit mother and wife.
Robert, NYC
Maybe the defense is just playing, actually hoping to get it overturned to make them look like the victims then turn to the Supreme Court to reinstate it which it most probably would given the last precedent overturned a few days ago. That’s just how devious and dishonest this self-righteous bitch is.
Robert, NYC
I once had her email address and she actually responded. Unfortunately I lost it. Maybe if someone has it, we could all bombard her with our own hate mail. We need to expose this hypocrite’s prior behavior, having sex outside of marriage countless times no doubt and getting knocked up. Time to go viral with this one.
Alexa
I suspect someone dropped her on her head when she was a baby.
Stevious
I’m in favor of logic, therefore I oppose Maggie Gallagher.
Robert, NYC
I believe this is her email address:
[email protected]
Lets go after her!
jimmy
If she wants a strong marriage culture, then her crusade should be against divorce, not against those who also believe in the value of the institution.
David Ehrenstein
This is a result of the Prop 8 trial. She’s trying to claim she doesn’t hate us — which is of course a lie.
cd
She may not hate gay people, but she loves herself and the patriarchal privilege she shares in too much.
B Damion
Ummm..so all the single parents out there? what are they chop liver? It’s been my experience that children need love. They need to feel safe and loved. And if she cares so much about the children of america she should be adovating something totally different than her bias opp on same sex marri. This shit just pissed me off so bad i can’t even type correctly daam it.
Robert, NYC
Folks, here is the response I just received from Maggie Gallagher. I really gave her a tongue lashing. She totally ignored my response to her hypocrisy after her rant against single parent households and using children as a canard to justify a ban on same-sex marriage. She couldn’t even admit having a sordid past. The only truth she should be worrying about is her past and failing to take ownership of it.
This is her sad response, doesn’t say much about her does it?
“Robert, if I were worried about my reputation I would be doing something feel good. I’m woried about the truth. Do you share my believe its wrong to have sex outside of marriage?”
1EqualityUSA
Did Naghanenu respond?
Robert, NYC
I just received another response from Gallagher. She asked me to tell her if I believed in sex outside of marriage and assumed I didn’t want to answer. I just told her I did and that its nobody’s business, not even hers. Then I asked her why she avoids admitting that she had sex outside of marriage, waiting to see if she admits to it. What a piece of work, she completely avoids uncomfortable questions about herself and sarcastically signed off saying…’thank you for sharing your view about me”. How pathetic. The woman is in utter denial about a lot of things.
1EqualityUSA
If she is so concerned about chastity, why would banning marriage for gays be on her “to-do” list? Red herring.
1EqualityUSA
Orientation is as prevalent as blue eyes. “The Bluest eye.”
terrwill
@Robert, NYC: Funny, I have been sending to:
[email protected]
Robert in NYC
I’v had yet another response from Maggie Gallagher in regard to her question if I believe in sex before marriage. Her response is as follows. Notice her poor command of English is evident.
“I don’t deny it, but your attempts to shame me for doing something you think is right aren’t very emotional persuasive. I mean I’ve written about this my whole life.”
Take care, Maggie
I’ve since responded to her asking if she would support discrimination against her own child if he or she were gay. For the sake of consistency, I’m hoping she will say yes.
By the way, she’s that stupid that she forgot to hide her other email address which is: [email protected]
Everybody should be emailing her to piss her off.
terrwill
Robert, of course she would support discrimnation against her own child, there are dozens of cases where these subhuman scumbag lunatics have cast their own children out because they came out……
>>>>>>>>>>> GOOD GAY KARMA NEWS!!!! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Tim Tebow who has taped an ad for James Dobson's terrorist group focus on the family was touted as one of the most promising NFL prospects for the upcoming draft. He had his tryout on Monday in front of the NFL scouts and FAILED MISERABLY!!! Should have spent little more time practicing instead of trying to spew the rightwing lunatic poo……..Timmmy Teblows!!!
terrwill
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> PS: Timmy Teblows ad is going to appear in the Super Bowl………….. focus on family recently laid off like 1/3 of its staff (boo fucking hoo) but had the cash to spend 2.3 million dollars for the ad. Goes to show how much they “focus” on the laid off workers famlies………….
Robert, NYC
Terrwill, she sent me a “farewell” email. She refused to respond on my question regarding discrimination against her own children who might be gay. Here’s how she ended the exchange and note again, how bad her command of English is for a woman of such prominence in a national hate organization.
On January 27, 20210, Maggie Gallagher wrote:
Robert,
You are in no position to even state what I beliedve
(i.e. “admit”)and what I don’t. That’s clear. You have fully
fulfilled your desire to morally denounce me, including for
stuff you don’t even think is wrong. If I thought conversation
was possible I would try. I don’t think so, so I’ll just let
you know your moral condemnation was heard. Maggie
Its clear she’s trying to turn it around on me by refusing to answer the questions I put to her. I responded telling her that her silence in regard to supporting discrimination against her own children if they were gay speaks volumes about her character and the type of parent she is. There were a lot of other questions she refused to comment on especially when I asked her to produce the evidence to support her claims. Her response…”including for stuff you don’t even think is wrong”, referred to her condemnation of sex outside of marriage, something that she once practiced. She even refused to take ownership of her tawdry past but conceded that the whole word knows about her out of wedlock pregnancy and that she didn’t need to belabor it. How convenient.
schlukitz
I just sent the following email to her at…
[email protected]
Mrs. Gallagher,
You just made this recent comment:
“I’m against discrimination, I’m against hatred, I’m in favor of marriage equality, but I don’t think same-sex marriage is marriage”
Duh. Dabble in redundancy much, do you?
schlukitz
Hi Robert,
Love this woman’s double standards. She tells you that you are in no position to even state what I believe, while stating her bigoted and hateful position with respect to LGBT people’s civil-rights
What gives HER that special right, other than the god-given right she BELIEVES she has?
Robert, NYC
Schlukitz, good for you. I think I pushed her into a corner she couldn’t get out of so she decided to call it quits. She avoids uncomfortable questions that bait her. I really nailed her on supporting discrimination against her own children if they were gay. She just didn’t acknowledge it. There were a lot of questions I posed at her, one of which was banning divorce which she also ignored and banning heterosexuals from marrying if they don’t or can’t procreate. No responses to any of them after repeated requests. Speaks volumes about her doesn’t it? She’s so transparent, not very bright.
schlukitz
And this email, I just sent to her at [email protected]
Maggie,
You said :
“I don’t believe same-sex marriage is marriage.”
Well, I don’t believe that Muhammad is the one true God. How about that?
Does that give me the right to start-up an organization, like NOM, to protest the worship of Muhammad and call for legislation that would ban and overturn the right of people to worship him?
Just because you have a “belief”, that does not mean that your belief is absolute or divine truth. A belief is just that. A belief. Nothing more, nothing less, and certainly not a logical or rational basis upon which to be publicly campaigning for legislation for the overturning of civil-rights and the denial of equality of all American Citizens.
It is readily apparent that you also do not believe in the old expression “live and let live”. You seem to believe that you have some sort of god-given right to disseminate your bigotry and hatred without limitation, and in so doing, abuse the right of freedom of speech. And please spare me from your mangling and twisting of the English language to make yourself look like you are free of discrimination and hatred, out of one side of your mouth, while espousing discrimination and hatred from the other. You just make yourself look like a total idiot by doing so.
Hate speech is NOT the same thing as freedom of speech, a fact that both Great Britain and Canada are well aware of and have passed laws that prohibit people like you from doing so.
cbdcs4u
schlukitz
Robert, you said…
There were a lot of questions I posed at her, one of which was banning divorce which she also ignored and banning heterosexuals from marrying if they don’t or can’t procreate. No responses to any of them after repeated requests. Speaks volumes about her doesn’t it? She’s so transparent, not very bright.
It is the MO of bigots like Maggie to avoid and side-step answering direct questions, because they know that they cannot honestly answer them without blowing both their cause and their cover.
You’re right. Maggie is very transparent…and decidedly NOT the sharpest pencil in the box.
1EqualityUSA
If we are going to be right about something, then let’s do right well. Opposing people thoughtfully. Our words will be permanent, so any hint of cruelty will be forever available in the future. This would reflect badly of us. With a bird’s eye, it is possible to use the correct amount of power.
soul_erosion
At Prop8Trial: Some of David Boies questions:
Q: Another is number 24, by Maggie Gallagher. Who is she?
Q: Consider her a scholar as you have used that word?
Q: Has she published peer-reviewed articles?
Q: What ones?
Q: Can you recall one you have relied on?
Q: What was the most recent peer-reviewed article by MGallagher you have relied on that was objective scholarship.
Q: Alright let me ask: What peer reviewed articles of Maggie Gallagher’s have you relied on?
And of course about the only answer we ever got out of Blankendouche was:
A: No, none of hers.
Maggie must have been really pissed to find out the so-called expert witness didn’t use any of her hate filled articles. She might have been brought up at trial but found to be irrelevant.
Take that, Maggot.
schlukitz
No. 46 · Robert, NYC
Well, it certainly didn’t take Maggie very long to get back to me.
…
From:
Maggie Gallagher
…
Wow. When people doubt me when I say there’s a conflict between SSM and religious liberty I’m going to send them your letter.
I’m so sorry for our country that you feel any disagreement with your views must be hate speech.
Yes you would have a right btw to found an organizaiton devoted to trying to get Islam enshrined in law. Free speech includes the right to advocate for things that are not Constitutional. (Both our political culture and our legal culture would intervene, but not by shutting down your right to organize.)
But in this case, which is not at all parallel to the one you sketch, half hthe courts as well as the majority of people do not agree that gay marriage is a constitutioanl right.
I’m sorry that strikes you as hatred.
When I really want to let people know where the gay marriage movement is headed, I tell them about Canada and Great Britain.
Take care, Maggie
cbdcs4u here again:
Especially noteworthy, is the first paragraph of Maggie’s response to me.
Wow. When people doubt me when I say there’s a conflict between SSM and religious liberty I’m going to send them your letter.
I am reminded of similar comments from Michael Letterman in which he threatened to “expose us for what we are” in some sort of compendium he purported to working on.
Was it 1EqualityUSA who suggested that Michael Letterman and Maggie Gallagher might be one and the same?
1EqualityUSA
Nope. Naghanenu and Gallagher. The writing style and colloquialisms didn’t match and the content of the posts flattered Gallagher and supported the constructs of NOM.
schlukitz
@ Robert and 1Equality
This was my reply to Maggie:
Re: Beliefs
…
You said, and I quote you with all of your many misspellings throughout your response to my original email….
” half hthe courts as well as the majority of people do not agree that gay marriage is a constitutioanl right.”
Madam, at the ripe old age of 73, I have lived long enough to recall hearing exactly the same kind self-righteous, bigoted and hateful verbiage being espoused and directed at the black community as justification for the denial of their civil-rights.
You and folks of your ilk then, were on the wrong side of history with the passage of the 1964 civil-rights bill for blacks.
And, you and and folks of your ilk will, once again, be proved to be on the wrong side of history with the elimination of DADT and DOMA in the not too distant future as that “half” figure tips in the direction of equality for all American taxpaying citizens regardless of religious beliefs.
Enjoy your short-term victories…while you can. Time is running out for the bigots and haters like you and those who believe that they have a god-given right to tell everyone else how they must live…or be discriminated against and punished for doing so.
Lady, I have a newsflash for you. When you labor at and succeed at taking my civil-rights away from me, that is hatred of the most blatant type.
No amount of manipulation on your behalf of the English language can change the true meaning of words and for your edification, I offer you the following from Dictionary.com
ha?tred? ?/?he?tr?d/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [hey-trid] Show IPA
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–noun
the feeling of one who hates; intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility.
Origin:
1125–75; ME; see hate, -red
Synonyms:
animosity, detestation, loathing, abomination.
Antonyms:
attraction, love.
I would direct your attention to the antonym shown. One word says it all, doesn’t it? When was the last time that YOU showed some love?
Oh, btw, most all email programs, including Yahoo Mail, include a spell check feature which is available at the click of a button.
Look into it.
cbdcs4u
1EqualityUSA
Nice letter, Schlukitz. I have 5 red heads in the kitchen, waiting to be washed…lettuce. ahhh!
schlukitz
Five red heads in the kitchen, eh?
Sounds like you are planning a little bash like the one the king planned in the 1957 TV production of Cinderella. ;P
http://www.amazon.com/Rodgers-Hammersteins-Cinderella-Television-Production/dp/B00068NVG6
Lukas P.
If Mags’ numero uno concern is for heterosexual marriage, then she should spend her precious time trying to eradicate the primary enemy of marriage. It’s hard to spell: it’s called DIVORCE.
If she thinks kids need a mom and a dad, then she should take measures to wipe out the primary cause of children NOT living with Ma’s and Pa’s: DIVORCE.
Even if another same-sex couple never ever got married, it wouldn’t put a dent into the number of hetero marriages being dissolved. She’s putting her blame on the “wrong problem.”
p.s. Anyone know where the father of her child is and how involved he was in the raising that kid?
1EqualityUSA
No, I just got over a bash. Just polished-dried the wine glasses yesterday. A work-run is tugging on my tail. If I don’t prep veggies for my spouse, she won’t eat them for the time I’m away. Fruit too. If I was suddenly taken out of the game, she’d likely die of scurvy. Have a good day, amigo.
1EqualityUSA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhwMq8-5C30
D-I-V-O-R-C-E
schlukitz
No. 58 · 1EqualityUSA
Love the 60s style big hair. lol
1EqualityUSA
Maggie drives to work playing this song at top volume, with all of the windows down.
soul_erosion
One of these days Maggie is going to have to explain herself in a court of law and when that day comes I’ll fly across the country to watch her squirm. This from a Portland, Maine, newspaper article today: http://updates.pressherald.mainetoday.com/updates/ethics-denies-stay-request
schlukitz
Co-sign, SOUL_EROSION
Robert, NYC
Schlukitz, loved your responses to the haterade-drinking “archbitch” Gallagher (her married last name by the way is Srivastav). She won’t respond to me any longer because she knows I’ll bait her back into the corner where she belongs, permanently. If you’re writing to her again, ask her for the evidence to support her and NOM’s belief that same-sex marriage affected Governor Sanford’s and John Edwards marriages and if Edwards’ fathering of a child outside of his marriage had anything to do with it (Edwards and Sanford are two marriage equality foes). Neither of those states have marriage equality. She obviously believes that marriage equality in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut and Iowa by some miracle of osmosis caused those marriages to fail. She’s a moronic idiot. Ask her to produce the evidence. I bet you she’ll avoid responding to that or twist it around by giving you a different answer unrelated to the question. Ask her if same-sex marriage caused straight men and women to commit adultery and how, let alone bring children into the world outside of their own marriages. She’d be in a bind to come up with any logical answer because she really has none and she knows we’re aware of it. In fact, long before marriage equality existed, those same questions are applicable.
schlukitz
No. 63 · Robert, NYC
I’ve not had any further response from her either and, given the tone of my reply to her, and like you, it’s not likely that I will be hearing from her again either.
But, that is a blessing in disguise, however given how painful and annoying her hateful words are to read.
We should be thankful. 😉