Showing posts with label Maggie Gallagher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maggie Gallagher. Show all posts
Friday, May 2, 2014

Maggie Gallagher Admits Defeat (But Not Really)

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Isn't it fascinating that Maggie Gallagher can't quite seem  to grasp — still, at this late date, after she admits that her n...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

A Concluding Look at John Corvino's What's Wrong with Homosexuality?: The Fork in the Road to Social Transformation

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I promised you all a final overview statement about  John Corvino's outstanding book What's Wrong with Homosexuality?  (Oxfo...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Mark Oppenheimer on What Makes Maggie Gallagher Tick: Mission Rooted in Biography

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Mark Oppenheimer's exclusive at Salon today trying to figure out what makes Maggie Gallagher tick is a must-read article.  Oppen...
Saturday, December 17, 2011

Newt Signs NOM Marriage Pledge, Maggie Gloats, Blogsphere Goes Ballistic

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As Andrew Sullivan says , one can definitely find hope in the comments responding to Maggie Gallagher's gleeful report that the ...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

In the News: Updates to Ten Previous Stories

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Follow-ups and/or updates to stories about which I've blogged here in the past:
Thursday, November 24, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving

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Edward Hicks, "Peaceable Kingdom" For any American readers who may be logging in to read as you prepare to travel for t...
Saturday, April 9, 2011

Once Lost, Now Found: Louis Marinelli of National Organization for Marriage Has Conversion Experience

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The story developing now with a former National Organization for Marriage head honcho, Louis Marinelli, is engrossing.  It's in importa...
Saturday, March 19, 2011

Andrew Sullivan on Growing Catholic Support for Gay Marriage and His Experience as a Gay Catholic

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My posting about Ross Douthat's latest op-ed statement re: why monogamy matters mentions that I responded to Douthat's essay in pa...
Monday, March 7, 2011

African-American Faith Communities and the LGBT Community: An Arkansas Church Builds Bridges

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National Organization for Marriage chair Maggie Gallagher has recently been crowing that the opposition to marriage equality in Maryland ...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

Obama Administration Won't Defend Unconstitutional DOMA: Official Catholic Reactions from U.S. Bishops and Maggie Gallagher

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In case you're wondering what the moral teachers of the Catholic church in the U.S. have to say about the decision of the Obama admini...

Anti-Gay Initiatives Across U.S. State Legislatures: Gays Not to Take Them "Personally"

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When I look at the pictures of the two young Republicans sponsoring the "Don't Say Gay" bill now before the Tennessee legis...
Friday, October 29, 2010

Fresh Sperm: Bishop Eddie Long and John Paul II's Theology of the Body

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One of the supposedly earth-shaking insights of the Catholic theology of the body developed by the late pope John Paul II is its insistence...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

Joel Burns, Fort Worth City Council Member to Gay Teens: It Gets Better

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Joel Burns' testimony (I'm using that religiously charged term deliberately here) at a recent Fort Worth city council meeting in Dan...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

New National Organization for Marriage Watchdog Site Launches: NOM Exposed

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I’ve blogged in recent days about the . . . remarkable . . . confluence of the political activities of the National Organization of Marriage...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

Syreeta McFadden on Ross Douthat's Approach to Mosque Controversy: Sinister Subtext Appealing to "Seeming" Reason

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A must-read piece today: Syreeta McFadden at Religion Dispatches on Ross Douthat's recent ground-zero mosque column .  Joan Walsh mast...
Saturday, July 31, 2010

Timothy Kincaid on NOM's Summer of Hate: Bald-Faced Bigotry Betraying Core Religious Values

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A good article by Timothy Kincaid today at Box Turtle Bulletin, putting the rank homophobia of groups like the National Organization for M...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Dispatch from the Front: Maggie Gallagher Notes Majority Support for Same-Sex Marriage Among Youth

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  NOM's Maggie Gallagher loves to natter on--and on--about how the rights of gay human beings ought to be up for grabs through popular ...
Friday, November 13, 2009

Ms. Prejean and the Catholic Bishops: Glass Houses, Stones

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I wrote earlier today, When people claim to be moral teachers, those whom they teach will naturally look to the lives of the teacher to see ...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Latest Financial Filings of Campaign to Remove Right of Marriage from Maine's Gay Citizens: Big Money from Catholic Diocese and NOM, Donors Unknown

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Yesterday, groups seeking to remove the right of marriage from gay citizens of Maine released totals of the funds they’ve taken in for their...
Friday, October 23, 2009

The Maine Campaign to Remove Right of Marriage from Gay Citizens: Catholic Bishops' Troubling Assault on Moral Foundations of Democracy

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Have I said this lately? I don’t think so, or, at least, not quite so pointedly. The attack of the Catholic bishop of Maine, Richard Malon...