What's to see? Maggie will spout the same theocratic b.s. she always puts out. Anyone with a rational view who argues for civil marriage equality gets blasted with Roman Catholic talking points represented as "natural law" and disguised as concern for children. Feh.
I'm sorry, but I really strongly feel that organizations ought to have credible spokespeople, even if only in the most superficial terms. As such, I find it both frustrating and hysterical that NOM is unprofessional and tone-deaf enough to trot out Maggie Gallagher as its spokesperson. Take just one look at her, and you can see why she's so irrationally obsessed with other people's sex lives and romantic lives -- she lacks both.
And we made it to 7 comments before the looks-bashing began. 7 and 8: I understand the impulse, but there are so, so many more substantial/less sexist reasons to mock Maggie Gallagher.
It's even more exasperating when you have even a passing familiarity of her personal life. Gallagher is so het up about same-sex marriage because her Republican babydaddy refused to marry her.
@11, I stand by what I said. I refuse to show these bigoted pieces of shit any respect. One of these "good god fearing folk" pu me in a hospital for over a week in 1993.
At least I didn't call her a lardy ugly cunt which was my FIRST response. I toned it down.
Really, Schmader? Says the guy who picked the single worst picture of her available on the internet? I call bullshit on your righteousness.
In the photo YOU PICKED she bears a bizarre similarity to an older, fatter Bjork and I find that hilarious. If we're going to get precious on Slog, might as well turn off the servers and go home.
I don't want to look at her or be anywhere near her - not because she lacks conventional beauty - but because she is unhappy, looks miserable and passes those feelings onto her audience.
I must own up to the very same basic impulse as @7 & 8, even if Schmades seems to have given me a pass. Hiding behind oblique smears is one of the things THEY do best and most frequently.
I can't stand that woman. I get that she feels unwanted and rejected (see @12), but just like the other virulent homophobes whose physiology often betrays their same-sex attraction, how can you be so ignorant of elementary psychology that you unashamedly displace your self-loathing onto some perceived alternative target whose existence threatens you NOT ONE WHIT?
I picked a photo that makes her look stupid, because I think she is stupid. I think this because of the things she says. Spotlighting someone's stupidity ain't sexist.
It's my understanding that Gallagher feels that the man who impregnated her ought to have been compelled to marry her. But, I suppose even she realizes that would be a hard sell.
What's to watch? Maggie only has one arguement: the specialness of marriage requires that it be kept specially for oposite sex couples. My answer: "no".
Hey Dan-
I'm an Evergreen student and I just got back from this event not 5 minutes ago. Guess what Maggie confessed to us? Her "private fantasy" is to right a novel about a dystopian future in which Mormons and Muslims are the last people on earth, and are in conflict with one another. For some reason "the Pope is in Utah" in this bizarre scenario. Just thought you'd be interested in some more ammunition against Miss Crazy Bowling-Ball-Head.
Love, Someone Voting Yes On The Referendum Because I'm Not An Idiot
The other way.
Hey, if you believe it's possible...
At least I didn't call her a lardy ugly cunt which was my FIRST response. I toned it down.
In the photo YOU PICKED she bears a bizarre similarity to an older, fatter Bjork and I find that hilarious. If we're going to get precious on Slog, might as well turn off the servers and go home.
What 16 said.
That is one of the most unflattering pictures I've ever seen of anybody.
Perhaps if you'd used an image like this one: http://www.marriagedebate.com/images/gal…
You wouldn't get the "looks-bashing" you obviously trolled for.
I can't stand that woman. I get that she feels unwanted and rejected (see @12), but just like the other virulent homophobes whose physiology often betrays their same-sex attraction, how can you be so ignorant of elementary psychology that you unashamedly displace your self-loathing onto some perceived alternative target whose existence threatens you NOT ONE WHIT?
Baby steps.
It's my understanding that Gallagher feels that the man who impregnated her ought to have been compelled to marry her. But, I suppose even she realizes that would be a hard sell.
I'm an Evergreen student and I just got back from this event not 5 minutes ago. Guess what Maggie confessed to us? Her "private fantasy" is to right a novel about a dystopian future in which Mormons and Muslims are the last people on earth, and are in conflict with one another. For some reason "the Pope is in Utah" in this bizarre scenario. Just thought you'd be interested in some more ammunition against Miss Crazy Bowling-Ball-Head.
Love, Someone Voting Yes On The Referendum Because I'm Not An Idiot