Maggie Gallagher: Prop 8 Attorney’s Daughter Coming Out As A Lesbian Was ‘A Family Crisis’

Maggie Gallagher, desperate to still hold on to whatever shreds of relevancy she has left, penned an opinion piece on her blog yesterday that looks at the religious right’s losses on same-sex marriage, the brouhaha over the resignation of Mozilla’s Brendan Eich, and the coming out of the lead Prop 8 attorney’s daughter as a lesbian.

Of the latter, Maggie Gallagher calls it “a family crisis.”

Just a few weeks ago, in an interview with Jo Becker for her new and highly-controversial book, Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality, Cooper reveals his daughter came out during the Prop 8 trial, and he is now planning her wedding. His views on same-sex marriage, he says, are “evolving.”

But in the very ugly world that Gallagher has created for herself, having your offspring acknowledge that they are gay or lesbian is “a family crisis.” Can we thus presume she would experience it in the same way one might experience the loss of a child, or the way one might feel learning a family member has cancer?

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Gallagher, the co-founder and former Chair of NOM, the National Organization For Marriage, writes that she hopes Charles Cooper, the lead Prop 8 attorney who defended the unconstitutional law all the way to the Supreme Court, reads this statement:

“Thank you for your hard work, and your service.  I had no idea you were working this hard, for so little benefit to yourself and your career, while simultaneously managing a family crisis like this.  Thank you for being faithful to the end to your client and our cause.  And I wish God’s blessings on you and your family.”

And then she adds:

I would say this, even though I do not see how someone faithful to the Biblical or the natural law underlying it, can host a gay wedding.

Frankly, I’m shocked.

In her defense, she goes on to attempt to display a shred of unconditional love, but it comes off as a sham:

I could have a gay child. Anyone could have a gay child. Other people I know have gay children. Our children are beloved and yet do not necessarily put together the world the way we would have them. We have to love them anyway, across all the gaps.

“Have to,” as in, required to.

“We have to love them anyway, across all the gaps.”

Wow.

Out of all the professional anti-gay activists, I somehow always had a sneaky suspicion that Gallagher was above the ugly anti-gay hate so easily and often displayed by the likes of her successor, Brian Brown, or the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer, but now I know better. 

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Previously:

Maggie Gallagher: Conservatives Have More Babies To Try To Destroy Inevitability Of Gay Marriage

Maggie Gallagher: Prop 8 Campaign Ads Were ‘Not-Very-Cruel’

Supreme Court Will ‘Impose Gay Marriage In All Fifty States’ Warns Maggie Gallagher

Maggie Gallagher: Moral Gays Deserve The Right To ‘Ex-Gay’ Therapy