Marriage Watch / Maggie Gallagher
Heather McDonald has just published a very thoughtful and brave piece on National Review online.
It begins this way:
An image from a TV ad for gay marriage, reproduced in the January18 New Yorker, provides a Rorschach test for reactions to America'songoing revolution in family structure. Two men in black suits stand shoulder-to-shoulder in a group of people, looking into each other'seyes. In their [...]
Author Archives: Maggie
Re-engineering the Family?
February 1, 2010 – 5:48 pm
New Study: Married Biological Parents Best
January 28, 2010 – 8:24 pm
Marriage Watch / Maggie Gallagher
A new government study just came out that looks at child abuse.
Question: What kind of family structure best protects children from child abuse?
Answer: Married biological parents. (see page 5-25).
All the other family structures studied (which does not include same-sex parent families probably because these are such a small part of the [...]
Letter to Court Regarding Televised Trials
January 28, 2010 – 9:42 am
Marriage Watch / Maggie Gallagher
NOM filed this letter regarding Rule 77-3:
January 27, 2010
Hon. Phyllis Hamilton
Chair of the Rules Committee
United States Courthouse
1301 Clay Street
Oakland, CA 94612
Re: Local Rule 77-3
Dear Judge Walker,
My objection to televising high-profile trials is not theoretical. It emerges directly from the experience of the attempt to televise the trial for Proposition 8. Two-thirds [...]
This isn't really a trial update.
January 27, 2010 – 5:12 pm
Marriage Watch / Maggie Gallagher
While David Blankenhorn is on the hand try to explain to David Boies the nature of marriage as a cross-cultural virtually universal human social institution, I was at Colorado University at Boulder, at the invitation of the St. Thomas Aquinas Center for Catholic Thought, debating same-sex marriage with Jonathan Rauch.
The Catholic [...]
Putting Christianity on Trial
January 20, 2010 – 8:08 am
Marriage Watch / Maggie Gallagher
What do Olson and Boies think they are doing? Watching accounts of this trial unfold this week I had a big "aha" moment. It's now clear: Ted and David think they are conducting the Scopes trial!
When this trial began I told you: gay marriage activists were putting 7 million Californians on [...]
San Diego Mayor Sanders: The Reason Prop 8 Happened
January 19, 2010 – 8:37 pm
Marriage Watch / Maggie Gallagher
San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders testified today in the Prop 8 trial, in favor of misusing the Consittution to overturn the rights of 7 million Californian voters.
Here's the interesting thing most people don't know. San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders is the reason Prop 8 got on the ballot.
He gave moving testimony [...]
End of Week one: Gay Marriage Advocates Rebuked
January 15, 2010 – 6:15 pm
Marriage Watch / Maggie Gallagher
What happened to the dynamite duo of Ted Olson and David Boies? After the first week of this trial the shine is off their allegedly invincible legal skills.
First loss, as Brian Brown wrote:
"Once again the Supreme Court has stepped in to protect marriage supporters from potential harassment and intimidation, this time [...]
San Francisco Attorney Says Catholics/Baptists Unwelcome
January 13, 2010 – 5:26 pm
Marriage Watch / Maggie Gallagher
San Francisco Attorney Theresa Stewart examined gay historian and Yale Prof. George Chauncey on religious groups's vviews on marriage. The unseemly suggestion is that it is perfectly valid for voters to base their views on reading Prof. Chauncey's books, but that the great historic faith traditions views on sex and marriage [...]
Ted Olson Says Gay Marriage Not a Fundamental Right!
January 12, 2010 – 5:15 pm
Marriage Watch / Maggie Gallagher
Well, no that's not exactly what the "conservative" lawyer fighting to overturn Prop 8 and impose gay marriage said. But when the judge asked him, "If California would simply get out of the marriage business and classify everyone as a domestic partnership, would that solve the problem?" Ted Olson said yes, that [...]
Supremes Block TV Coverage of Prop 8
January 11, 2010 – 2:42 pm
Marriage Watch / Maggie Gallagher
The Supreme Court just issued an emergency order blocking Judge Walker's outrageous ruling that the Prop 8 trial be televised. For the second time, as the Chicago Tribune points out, the Supreme Court has been willing to step in on an emergency basis to protect marriage supporters from outrageous court rulings.
"In [...]
