I have personally interacted with a number of the leading anti-gay mouth pieces such as Robert Knight and Peter LaBarbera (I still have our e-mail exchanges) - who strike me as extreme self-loathing closet cases who have transferred their almost violent self-hate to other gays who have resolved/accepted their sexuality - and closeted politicians like former Congressman Ed Schrock who I outed to Mike Rogers. The boyfriend and I even had a face to face confrontation with Operation Rescue nutbag Randall Terry (who has a gay son) at the National Equality March in Washington, D.C., in October, 2009. In every case, these individuals have displayed a bizarre level of hysteria over homosexuality and same sex relationships that suggest that they all have serious emotional/psychological issues that that need resolution. Unfortunately, rather than seek appropriate mental health treatment, they cling desperately to simplistic, rote religious dogma that causes them to lash out and attach others. It's a case on their part of doing anything else rather than deal with their own screwed up emotional/psychological issues. Maggie Gallagher (pictured above) - the former unwed mother, now married to a non-Christian - who has decided to wrap herself in the garb of the Christian guardian of marriage (enriching herself financially in the process). Jeremy Hooper at Good As You has an interesting take on Gallagher which may explain some of her irrational aversion to gays and gay marriage. Here are some highlights (Read Jeremy's full post for numerous Gallagher quotes):*
I recently heard a theory about Maggie Gallagher, which suggested that the the National Organization For Marriage doyenne is super-obsessed with marriage matters because she believes, based on her own personal experience, that men are generally/ genuinely terrified of marriage. The theory went on to suggest that since Maggie has her own Catholic views on homosexuality, and since she holds a belief that most straight men are repulsed by gay sex, she in turn surmises that same-sex unions do and will serve to further alienate heterosexual men from matrimony.
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The theory could be right or it could be off-base. But it does actually make a lot of sense. Maggie has talked at length about how the father of her oldest child, a fellow Yalie who Maggie describes as having had a "troubled past", abandoned her and her unborn son in 1982. . . . Maggie directly ties this recollection in with her burgeoning Catholic faith and conservative consciousness, so there's no doubt that it was all highly formative. . . . It seems a focal point was born right alongside the son.
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Then couple this view with what we know to be Maggie's views on gays in general (or at least the view she wishes to stir up among her supporters). ...and you'd seem to have a perfect storm for turning conservative game-playing into a career. A perfect vehicle for making good money as a public intellectual. A perfect scapegoat for Maggie's own experiences with marriages and straight men. A perfect psychological catharsis, played out at the expense of gay people's own lives and loves and associated rights.
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Maggie, please do us all a favor and get some serious, legitimate mental health treatment and stay out of our lives (we will gladly steer clear of yours) and stop trying to conflate your own psychological/religious demons into the nation's civil laws.
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