Comments on: Yes, Maggie Gallagher, You Have Blood on Your Hands

By: Rob Tisinai

Rob Tisinai — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:02:44 +0000

Nathan, I did not introduce the rhetoric of blood on Maggie’s hands. That’s the conversation as she set it up.

Your question about having “a civil discussion of marriage equality” is exactly the point. NOM asks for that again and again. It would be a great way to proceed. But when they commit money to “fanning hostility” we have to deal with that head on.

By: Nathan F

Nathan F — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:58:20 +0000

This post is WAY more caustic than NOM’s strategy regarding communities of color. Blood on Maggie Gallagher’s hands? Can we please tone down the rhetoric and have a civil discussion of marriage equality?

Personally, I don’t see much difference between NOM’s outreach strategy to the black community and HRC’s outreach strategy to the religious community (or to communities of color or to youth).

The only thing I find really shocking and morally upsetting about the NOM papers (besides their typical disregard for the rights and dignity of LGBT people) is, as Steve pointed out, trying to pay children to condemn their gay parents.

By: Paul Mc

Paul Mc — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:35:42 +0000

I so look forward to Brian Brown’s first mainstream TV interview where he tries to defend the charge that looking for the kids of gay parents is not only deeply unethical but also very very creepy and possibly illegal.

Now let’s find their donors and put the same charges to them.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:22:50 +0000

Don’t forget the part where they planned to hire someone full-time (to the tune of 60k dollars) to find children willing to publicly condemn their gay parents.

No idea if they actually went through with it, but if they did, they didn’t find any