Even though she is no longer chairwoman of the National Organization for Marriage, Maggie Gallagher continues with this same whiny line:
"It's becoming increasingly clear that the gay rights movement, the gay marriage movement, really does believe you're like a racist if you think marriage is the union of husband and wife."I've done this so many times and it warrants repeating yet again. I apologize to folks who have read this piece in other forms but don't blame me. Madame Gallagher is playing the Scarlett O'Hara game of thinking that if she places her fingers in her ears and ignores past events which have transpired in which NOM has been caught in unscrupulous behavior, she can plead victimhood.
The comical thing that this argument got literally laughed out of courts.
But Gallagher's argument has power amongst the very gullible, so as long as she plays that game, I will run the following reminder.
To whit, no one considers Gallagher or NOM bigoted for believing that marriage is a union between a man and a woman. Gallagher and NOM are bigoted because of their unscrupulous tactics. Let me repeat the history complete with new instances:
May 10, 2011 - NOM exploiting children to stop gay marriage in New York - NOM puts out a commercial in New York repeating the variation of the "kindergartners are being taught about gay marriage" lie which was exposed by Politifact in February.
May 14, 2011 - Politifact gives NOM 'Pants on Fire' rating for lying - Politifact catches NOM lying yet again. This time it is about marriage equality in Rhode Island.
May 15, 2011 - Brian Brown reveals NOM's anti-gay game of divide and conquer - At a march against marriage equality in New York, NOM president Brian Brown repeats the lie that " . . . kids as young as kindergarten are taught in Massachusetts that their parents are bigots because they believe marriage is the union of a man and a woman."
May 16, 2011 - NOM - Homosexuals wants to destroy children's innocence through gay marriage - NOM sends out a flyer claiming that gay marriage will destroy the "innocence" of children.
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| An inaccurate flyer put out by NOM |
June 28, 2011 - NOM astroturfed 'legal scholars' in New York - During its unsuccessful attempt to stop marriage equality in New York, NOM tried to make it seem that objective legal scholars were claiming that marriage equality in the state will negatively impact those who disagree with it. But NOM omits the fact that these scholars are not objective. They are all against marriage equality. And one of the scholars in question, Robert George, is presently the Chairman Emeritus of NOM.
October 24 - NOM is caught stealing photos from past Obama rallies in an effort boost its number of supporters.
And if those reasons aren't enough, Equality Matters has a huge breakdown of NOM's exploits which go way beyond simply "expressing Christian faith" or "defending traditional marriage." The following are just a few:
NOM’s Ruth Institute: “It Gets Better” Project “Aggressively Promotes Deviant Sex”
NOM: Homosexuality Will “Hurt You Badly,” “End Your Life Prematurely”
NOM President Claims Marriage Equality Will “Normalize Pedophilia”
NOM Links Homosexuality To Pedophilia (Again)
NOM Newsletter: Gays Are Engaged In “Jihad,” Want To “Take Away Your Rights”
NOM’s Idea Of “Excellent” Analysis: Calling Homosexuality An “Addictive,” “Learned” Behavior
NOM Promotes Column Claiming That Normalizing Homosexuality Is “Sexual Anarchy”
And then there are the following past incidents which I have referred to on several occasions.
November 20, 2009 - Signer of Manhattan Declaration wanted to jail gays and lesbians - By signing an anti-gay document, The Manhattan Declaration, Gallagher and NOM affiliate themselves with people who want to jail lgbts.
February 1, 2010 - Maggie Gallagher commits 'sin of omission' to make case against marriage equality - Gallagher cites a study to bash gay marriage and gay parenting, even though the study had nothing to do with either concept.
March 8, 2010 - TinyU-R-Gay: @NOMupdates limits gay lives to less than 140 characters/years - A NOM tweet actually pushing the lie that gays have a short life span.
June 28, 2010 - Message to Maggie Gallagher: associating with bigots does make you a bigot - NOM associates itself with another bigoted group, The Traditional Value Coalition. Amongst other things, TVC head Lou Sheldon has said that gays should be referred to as "sodomites."
July 27, 2010 - National Organization for Marriage needs to disavow its 'zany' followers - NOM not only has a problem with the homophobia of those in its ranks, but also those who support the group, particularly the guy with the poster of the hangman's nooses.
February 11, 2011 - PolitiFact catches anti-gay group NOM in a huge lie about gay marriage and children - Pultizer Prize-winning news site calls NOM out on a lie that gay marriage is being taught to kindergartners in Massachusetts.
February 17, 2011 - National Organization for Marriage called out AGAIN for distortive tactics - NOM commissions a misleading poll claiming that the majority of folks in Maryland oppose gay marriage. They are called out on it by a local columnist.
February 22, 2011 - National Organization for Marriage makes the case for being an anti-gay hate group - NOM pushes a piece written by syndicated columnist Mike McManus of the group Marriage Savers. The column has several distortions about gays, including the lie that gay men have a shorter life span than heterosexuals.
April 14, 2011 - NOM Rhode Island's Chris Plante: Gays' marriages 'turn children into little teacup dogs -- it's an accessory to put in my purse' - A NOM leader in Rhode Island, Chris Plante, makes an offensive remark about same-sex families.
April 15, 2011 - Maggie Gallagher shucks and jives her way through the DOMA hearing - During a Congressional hearing on the Defense of Marriage Act, Gallagher says that gays and lesbians make wonderful parents and she does not understand how her past statements can be construed a "condemnation" of gays and lesbians and their "parenting skills." However, Equality Matters (and myself) lists statements Gallagher has made in the past which were not so complimentary to the lgbt community.
I don't agree that is the reason why they are bigoted.
ReplyDeleteThey are bigoted because they hold (and act upon) a hatefully negative view of a group of individuals related by a characteristic, with no rational and credible justification for such a view.
It really has little to do with how they view marriage; their definition of marriage is really a side effect of their bigotry, an extension of it.
I also consider marriage the union of a man and a woman. But I do not think it should only be a union between a man and a woman, but between any two consenting adults, regardless of sex.
Of course Gallagher and NOM are bigoted for believing that marriage is a union between a man and a woman. All one has to do is add four words to that sentence to demonstrate their bigotry – marriage is a union between a man and a woman *of the same race*. See how that works? And what makes them very bigoted is their conviction that their belief is the only valid one and that it should be codified into secular law.
ReplyDeleteTheir unscrupulous tactics do not make them bigoted; those are just the outward manifestations of their bigotry.