10 Dumbest Maggie Gallagher (NOM) quotes

[WillParkinson]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-10-dumbest-maggie-gallagher-quotes/

[racaulk]

1. I would have enjoyed that MUCH more if I didn't have to look at the cow's face with each quote.

:puke:

On the positive side, I think that, over the long term, Maggie will have done more for marriage equality than she realizes. There has been a strong uptick in support for gay marriage in the last few years (NOM was founded in 2007), and the more that NOM forces this discussion into the public discourse, the more support we will receive. Also, fair-minded conservatives and straight people are seeing the blatant and ribald bigotry of Maggie and her surrounding crew of anti-gay activists for what it is, and they are realizing that this bigotry is something that they do not want to be associated with.

So, let her keep talking. She is our generation's Anita Bryant (minus the looks and the talent), and in the future she will be similarly revered.

K&R

[joeybee12]

2. Anita Bryant is Anita Bryant minus the looks and talent...

that said, I agree that her obvious hate turns people away from the dark side and over to ours.

[Sapphocrat]

3. If everyone had to read her "theses" on marriage...

...all straight people would recoil in horror. Her entire philosophy boils down to: Men are perpetual little boys, incapable of acting like responsible adults, and need women, via marriage, to keep them in line -- and the way to do that is to treat one's husband like a baby. Literally.

As Hugo Schwyzer put it:

"Gallagher wants a world where wives baby husbands like mothers baby sons (she uses the mothering image too often for it to be careless). Her contempt for women and men is staggering; for Gallagher, a man is apparently an eternal child and every woman is called, perhaps like Mary, to be long-suffering, maternal, and self-abnegating. (Since when did the Jesus-Mary relationship become the model for good marriages? That’s a perverse twisting of Ephesians 5 indeed, more perverse than even Freud could imagine!) For Gallagher, humiliation and degradation are feelings to be suppressed, denied, and overcome, while happiness itself — especially for women — is a 'dangerous temptation.'"

Having read some of her "academic" papers on the subject, I can confirm Schwyzer is spot-on in his assessment.

Gallagher doesn't strike me as one of the christofascists whose bigotry is stepped in religiosity; rather, I believe, her anti-gay crusade is a desperate attempt to fulfill some sick need in her own sorry life (mixed with the equally sick need to make others at least as unhappy as she); she only uses the christofascists to her own ends, like the parasite she is.

[Itchinjim]

5. Irish Catholicism plays a big role in that outlook....

In my own family I know many self-martyring wives and mothers that fit that description to a tee.

[Itchinjim]

4. She seems kind of gay.

I don't know exactly what I mean by that statement and I hope I don't offend; But my gut feeling is that she is a gay woman in deep denial of her true self. Is that what is called "Gaydar"?

[moose65]

6. I think I agree

I had never actually seen a picture of her before reading this article. Full disclosure: I am gay, and I'm usually pretty good at picking out other gay people - and yes, we call it gaydar. That being said, she does look kinda lesbian to me.... but I hope she isn't! She is a rotten person and we don't need her within our ranks!