{"id":506293,"date":"2012-03-06T00:16:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T00:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/maggie-gallagher\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:29:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:29:56","slug":"maggie-gallagher","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/maggie-gallagher\/","title":{"rendered":"Maggie Gallagher"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014Dismissed<\/a> trans facility access: \u201cThe Democrats have taken a real but small problem\u2014the question of how to afford transgendered [sic] people access to facilities they need\u2014and elevated it into something huge: the principle that people with penises have a right to use the shower facilities of their choice no matter how uncomfortable or unsafe they make women feel, as a group of Oregon homeless women recently found out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Said<\/a> of Democratic Party support for trans rights: \u201cA party of decency would not decide that there is some fundamental right to expose yourself to the opposite sex in the name of transgender rights. A party of decency certainly would not tell every public school in America that it risks losing federal funding unless it invades girls\u2019 privacy rights, as President Obama has done with Hillary Clinton\u2019s endorsement.<\/p>\n

\u2014Used flawed research<\/a> from anti-LGBTQ researchers to make conclusive statements about genetics and medical procedures: \u201cThe simple fact is that sexual orientation, while not necessarily chosen, is not genetically determined (for otherwise identical twins would share the same orientation which, we know, they do not). We aren\u2019t merely \u2018born that way.\u2019 The mystery of sexual desire has not yet been pierced by scientific knowledge. Even worse for the Left\u2019s ideology, their research shows that we do not have any solid evidence of the mental-health benefits of hormonal or surgical gender reassignment for adults, much less for children. But what really shocked me is that we have no evidence of the relative physical risks and benefits of these long-term powerful medical interventions. We are experimenting on our own children\u2014and in the case of public schools now encouraging kids to shift genders\u2014other people\u2019s children.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Admited she sees homosexuality as \u201can unfortunate thing\u201d; advises that \u201cyou can always control your behavior\u201d; says gay people\u2019s \u201cdesires\u201d are to be subjected to \u201cmoral critique.\u201d (AUDIO AT LINK<\/a>) <\/p>\n

\u2014Referred to<\/a> being gay as \u201ca sexual disability preventing certain individuals from participating in the normal reproductive patterns of the human species.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Called on the Bush administration to dedicate research dollars to \u201cex-gay\u201d therapy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014Compared<\/a> winning the fight to ban marriage for gay couples with the fall of communism and believes that if it is made legal, it will mean \u201closing American civilization.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2014Believes<\/a> polygamy is better than marriage equality: \u201cAt least polygamy, for all its ugly defects, is an attempt to secure stable mother-father families for children.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2014Said<\/a> \u201cI oppose extending anti-discrimination laws to gays.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2014Said<\/a> both gay couples and their supporters as \u201ccommitting several kinds of various serious sins.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2014Said gay people see marriage as just \u201ca symbol<\/a>.\u201d (38:10\u201338:35)<\/p>\n

\u2014Defended the \u201cex-gay\u201d organization JONAH (Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality), claiming the scientifically discredited therapy as simply \u201chelp\u201d for gay Jews<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014Said Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy declared a \u201cfatwa<\/a>\u201c on people who oppose marriage equality.<\/p>\n

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