Anti-gay leader Maggie Gallagher threatens 'bloody mess'
Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2011 at 10:01 AM
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After New York enacted its first legal same sex weddings at the weekend, the anti-gay activist told the Christian Broadcasting Network that 'it's gonna be a bloody mess in New York.'
Gallagher's overheated rhetoric was eye-popping after a weekend that saw a self-declared right wing Christian fundamentalist murder almost 100 teenagers in defense of his own 'traditional values.'
On Sunday the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) organized a public protest against same sex marriage in the city with support from the group New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms (a group 'dedicated to influencing legislation and legislators for the Lord Jesus Christ').
The constitutional freedoms these groups were protecting were their own of course, and they clearly refused to see the irony in calling for the removal of the freedoms of others. But framing the debate in terms of violent acts towards gays was a new gambit for the increasingly desperate activist.
NOM's anti-gay and largely religiously inspired march attracted notably large numbers of Latino and African American protestors (who incidentally, also make up a large percentage of the city's gay and lesbian community, leaving an very open question as to the strength of family love and acceptance in their own communities).
Gallagher told the crowd that outlawing marriage equality would be 'mission critical' for the anti-gay organizations.
Gallagher would be better off strengthening her own marriage than trying to undermine someone else's. Perhaps she could have spent the millions her organization has raised on helping the disadvantaged, the elderly and the infirm rather than hounding and harassing her gay neighbors for no other reason than her animus toward their existence.
Now that Gallagher's organization is losing the argument with Democrats AND Republicans, can we expect to hear even more of this dangerously overheated rhetoric from her organization?
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Bernadett | Jul 28, 2011, 10:14 AM EDT
WHO IS THIS WOMAN? LET PEOPLE LIVE THEIR OWN LIVES AS LONG AS THEY ARE CONSENTING ADULTS . GOD AM I GLAD SHE IS NOT MY MOTHER. GOOD LUCK TO ALL YOU GAYS OUT THERE FROM A MOTHER OF 5 CHILDREN.
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mcbreen | Jul 27, 2011, 09:54 AM EDT
Maggie doesn't relize that she is an enabler for
all of those people who can't live with their homosexuality, and seek victimization. So I guess that
if it wasn't for Ms. Gallagher, everything would be fine?
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Nachtzehrer | Jul 26, 2011, 10:32 PM EDT
Maggie, stop taking your fat aggression out on others...it's not there fault someone ate the last twinkie!....My brother is gay and if he wants to be married, I think he should have just as much of a right to be as miserable as every other married person out there :P
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hollabackgurl | Jul 26, 2011, 10:21 PM EDT
Every day a new set of parents somewhere has to choose between their gay son/daughter or their religion. And the worst ones always choose their religion.
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JohnE67 | Jul 26, 2011, 09:15 PM EDT
She does not speak for me...
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wilhoef | Jul 26, 2011, 09:03 PM EDT
Who the f**k would marry Maggie.????????
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eiriamach | Jul 26, 2011, 08:17 PM EDT
In the video, she talks about non-violent political lobbying. But her "bloody mess" comment is scary. We don't need more threats of violence like those we heard during the last election: "second amendment remedies," etc. Do people in the Republican Party want to be associated with someone who is as far to the far-far right as this woman is?
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teddybear | Jul 26, 2011, 06:57 PM EDT
Maggie GET A LIFE.
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seanomelbourne | Jul 26, 2011, 06:49 PM EDT
Sad Maggie mind your business you bigot
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hollabackgurl | Jul 26, 2011, 04:55 PM EDT
It really bothers me that people might think she's Irish American. I disavow her and her culture of hate.
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SCVMal | Jul 26, 2011, 04:37 PM EDT
Haggy Maggie IS the Bloody Mess! She's so concerned about a Mother and a Father for children and her child has a sire, but NOT a "Father". At this point, she's gotta be in it for the money!
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CGreen55 | Jul 26, 2011, 02:45 PM EDT
NOM? As in NOM NOM NOM?
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cinnamonscone | Jul 26, 2011, 02:30 PM EDT
I am solidly and firmly in favor of marriage. ALL marriage. Heck.....I am married for 37 years. My heterosexual marriage isn't threatened by gay marriage any more than it is threatened by hetero sexual divorces. I am bewildered by all those folks who claim to be so religious yet are so mean and close minded.
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jamieLM | Jul 26, 2011, 11:16 AM EDT
Not all Christian fundamentalists go around killing innocent people. The Norwegian is a psychopath, in my opinion. @ Mr. O'Doherty, you make good points in your 2nd to the last paragraph. My interest is in my own straight marriage. I don't waste my time trying to control other people's marriages, gay or straight. My husband and I volunteer in several organizations to help the homeless, sick, and elderly. Sexual preference is rightly a non-issue. Life is tough enough for everyone these days without making problems over the sexuality preferences of law-abiding citizens.
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