A Very Well Written Article on Maggie Gallagher, the Anti-Marriage Equality's Top Crusader
Gallagher's motivation does not seem to be pure homophobia. Rather, she has intellectualized a very painful personal episode in her life, and she blames the Libertine nature of our culture for her pain.
Maggie became a un-wed mother while at Yale, and the child's father coldly abandoned them. They would re-unite, but once the father coldly abandons them. As you read the article, you can tell that she still harbors pain from this.
Her crusade against ending discrimination against Gays boils down to the fact that more social liberation and more relaxtion from rigid cultural norms would result in more men coldly abandoning their children.
I don't agree with her position, and I find her reasoning hysterical. Every prohibitionist always seems to be projecting their internal personal conflicts and pain onto the world.
Those would seem to be the hard facts, the evidence on which pure thought would operate. But for Gallagher these facts are temporal, contingent and ultimately meaningless. They just appear to be facts. In an email two months after our first conversation, she explains why her opponents are mistaken: “One of the lessons I learned as a young woman from the collapse of Communism is this: Trying to build a society around a fundamental lie about human nature can be done, for a while, with intense energy (and often at great cost); but it cannot hold.
http://www.salon.com/2012/02/08/the_making_of_gay_marriages_top_foe/singleton/#comments
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...a gay man supposedly would abandon a child he father with a women if gay marriage is legal.
WTF? 
