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Maggie Gallagher
Maggie Gallagher is president of the National Organization for Marriage and has been a syndicated columnist for 14 years.
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Recent Articles
- About That Abstinence Study - February 3, 2010
- Somebody up there has a wicked sense of humor. How else do you explain the release this week of a new study by John B. Jemmott III proving that an abstinence-only...
- Putting Religion on Trial? - January 27, 2010
- The kid in the audience -- he seems a kid to me, just 20 years old -- asks me a question: "You say gay marriage will lead to the use of the law to repress traditional...
- Do We Care About Boys? - January 20, 2010
- The headline from The Washington Post celebrates yet another milestone: "University of Virginia picks its first female president." But meantime, the data continues to...
- Dems Drive Off Health Care Cliff - January 12, 2010
- The more Americans learn about this health care package, the more they hate it. The more Democrats learn about how much Americans hate their health care plan, the more...
- California Voters Face Show Trial in Kangaroo Court - January 5, 2010
- On Monday, Jan. 11, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker will put the people of California on trial for voting against gay marriage. The case will be a show trial in a...
- 'The System Worked' - December 30, 2009
- "The system worked," quoth our homeland security chief. Wow. That's quite some awesome system we have to protect American lives, isn't it? Just think about it. Here's...
- No Room in the Barracks for Pregnant Soldiers? - December 25, 2009
- The 2009 Scrooge Lump of Coal Award goes to ... Major General Anthony Cucolo for announcing there is no room in his barracks for pregnant soldiers this...
- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Climate Chief - December 9, 2009
- In a famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Jonathan Edwards once warned his fellow Americans: "The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for...
- Gratitude '09 - November 25, 2009
- I've been thinking a lot lately about thankfulness. Many people do not know this about me, but I used to be a libertarian. Like many teenagers, I was converted to a form...
- After Carrie - November 17, 2009
- Let me tell you a fairy tale. Once upon a time, a gorgeous blond California girl -- let's call her "Carrie" -- wanted to be a beauty queen. Asked about gay marriage,...
- The Maine Vote for Marriage - November 4, 2009
- On Election Day this past Tuesday, the people of Maine voted to repeal gay marriage, 53 percent to 47 percent. Gay-marriage advocates are bitterly disappointed. They...
- Gay Marriage Threatens the Establishment of Both Parties - October 27, 2009
- The Rev. Anthony Evans stepped up to the podium at Stand for Marriage D.C.'s rally last Sunday with a message for D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray: The black church...
- The Invention of Lying - October 20, 2009
- I've been thinking about the invention of lying. Maybe it's the pair of Virginia gubernatorial campaign ads I just saw on TV in which the word "dishonest" was hurled...
- Revenue Neutral, It Ain't - October 14, 2009
- The insurance companies have decided to let you and me in on a little secret: When the government says the health care bill is "revenue neutral," that doesn't...
- The Five Leading Indicators of Marriage - October 6, 2009
- How do you measure a marriage culture? The Institute for American Values, in conjunction with the new National Center for African-American Marriage and Parenting has...
- What are the Sexual Rules? - October 1, 2009
- "Every society regulates sex," Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr. has noted -- it's just a question of how, and to what end? Not in the streets where it scares the horses. And not...
- Obama Fibs on Taxes, Abortion Beginning To Show - September 22, 2009
- There are lies, damn lies, and then there is politics. Read President Obama's lips: No new taxes for the middle class. Well, OK, maybe there will be revenue enhancers,...
- Transgender Poker? - September 15, 2009
- We live in an age where rights are multiplying like rabbits. Don't get me wrong: I like rabbits. In Vermont, 16-year-old Kyle Giard-Chase marched over to the Vermont...
- Gay Marriage Rage - September 8, 2009
- I was in Maine on the day that marriage qualified for the ballot this November. I went to Maine as president and founder of the National Organization for Marriage, which...
- Ted Kennedy, Pro-Abortion Saint? - September 2, 2009
- The body had barely been laid to rest with a presidential eulogy plus all the pomp and circumstance fit for a king or a Kennedy, when politcos began buzzing: "Another...
- The Heart of a Conservative - August 25, 2009
- Conservatives are on a roll. A huge negative reaction to liberal Democrats' overreach may well push the Republican Party to victory in 2010. What then? Ah, there is the...
- No Justice for Marriage - August 19, 2009
- Why has President Obama's Justice Department abruptly attempted to sabotage the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in federal court? Justice is supposed to be blind. When...
- Obama: Looking Like Bush? - August 11, 2009
- The Democrats must be having second thoughts about Obama's strategy to blunt the impact of health care protestors by calling them an "angry mob." I mean, look at the...
- Cash for Clunky Health Care? - August 4, 2009
- More cash for clunkers? Obama's Cash for Clunkers program ran out of money in just a few weeks, as Americans rushed in record numbers to take advantage of the new public...
- Fighting Fat By Fighting Fat - July 29, 2009
- How do we trim health care costs? Weighing in on the national debate, a new study in the journal Health Affairs urges: Fight fat by fighting fat. An obese person spends...
- Uninsured Like Me - July 22, 2009
- I'm not literally uninsured. But I started thinking hard about what Obamacare would mean for the people I know. A big chunk of people are uninsured for a reason. Health...
- I Heart Ruth Madoff - July 15, 2009
- "She has become perhaps the most vilified spouse of a financial rogue in history," The New York Times announced. Americans love to loathe Ruth Madoff, wife of convicted...
- Duke Case Raises Questions - July 1, 2009
- Frank Lombard is a Duke University health official, a licensed social worker, a white, college-educated, legal father of two African-American boys, and according to...
- The Divorce Will Be Televised - June 25, 2009
- America's most televised parents of multiples made it official: They are splitting up. Kate minus Jon makes nine. Yes, the children will suffer. But no doubt it will be...
- The Culture of Complaint - June 18, 2009
- Sarah Palin has graciously accepted David Letterman's long-delayed apology. The Alaska governor, in a statement issued Tuesday, accepted his apology "on behalf of all...
- Democracy - June 10, 2009
- The sausage-making isn't always pretty. Sometimes, at least, it's kind of amusing. This week in Albany, N.Y., a "coup" was staged. If you don't live in a democracy,...
- Two Murders - June 3, 2009
- Army Pvt. William A. Long was willing die for his country. He just never expected to have to do it in broad daylight on the peaceful streets of Little Rock, Ark. Long...
- Prop. 8 Wins - May 26, 2009
- I should be thrilled with Proposition 8's victory in the California Supreme Court. Instead, I wonder: Why in the world did I have to worry? Seven million Californians...
- Massachusetts Gay Marriage: Five Years Later - May 19, 2009
- Five years after same-sex couples first began to enter legal marriages -- recognized by court order -- in Massachusetts, what do voters in the Bay State think about gay...
- Miss California USA Keeps Her Title - May 14, 2009
- So Donald Trump, the big, strong alpha male, steps in to rescue the fair damsel in distress. Carrie Prejean, Miss California USA, will keep her title. Good for...
- Why is Trump Trying to Shut Up Miss California? - May 6, 2009
- Say it ain't so, Donald! Why is Donald Trump, one of the biggest mouths on the planet, trying to make Miss California USA, the runner-up Miss USA, shut up? That's what...
- Should America Be More Like Europe? - April 29, 2009
- Do we want to be like Europe? Europe is the first large and powerful civilization attempting to base itself on a pervasive secularism. The American tradition is not...
- Mainline Protestants' Dead End - April 14, 2009
- Is America's long love affair with Christianity coming to an end? Newsweek and other media decided the most appropriate way to mark the anniversary of Jesus' death was...
- Gay Marriage and the Future of Religious Liberty - April 7, 2009
- This week, by one vote, the Vermont Legislature overrode the governor's veto to impose same-sex marriage on that state. It's a breakthrough of sorts for the gay marriage...
- Should NY Discriminate Against Sex Abuse Victims? - April 1, 2009
- He is an assistant principal at a public high school -- Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day High School.Should public school teachers receive special protection from...