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Maggie Gallagher is a nationally syndicated columnist and a leading voice in the new marriage movement. She is the author of three books including The Case for Marriage: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier, and Better-Off Financially with Linda J. Waite. Her previous books were the The Abolition of Marriage: How We Destroy Lasting Love and Enemies of Eros: How the Sexual Revolution is Destroying Family, Marriage and Sex.
She makes frequent media appearances and lectures on social issues. She lives in Westchester, NY with her husband and two sons.
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Maggie Gallagher (May 24, 2012)
President Obama is apparently tired of pretending he opposes gay marriage. Good.
Good, because lying to the American people is always wrong, and because now the American... more
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Maggie Gallagher (May 17, 2012)
Just how bad a blunder was President Obama's forced gay marriage endorsement?
Item: Manny Pacquiao, the world's greatest boxer, just came out against gay marriage. He now... more
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Maggie Gallagher (May 03, 2012)
A few years ago, beauty queen Carrie Prejean innocently answered a question about gay marriage with a polite 'no.' She was viciously personally attacked by Miss USA pageant... more
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Maggie Gallagher (Apr 26, 2012)
Sarah Palin was the first to recognize the problem: By participating in President Obama's signature education initiative, the Common Core Standards, Alaska would lose control... more
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Maggie Gallagher (Apr 19, 2012)
The Democrats' war on women meme is failing.
If you read between the lines of the April 17 poll from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, you can see it's... more
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Maggie Gallagher (Apr 13, 2012)
Will chicks dig Mitt?
Or did Republicans blow it by attacking President Obama's decision to impose intrusive new mandates on religious charities requiring the nuns of... more
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Maggie Gallagher (Apr 05, 2012)
In the whole swirling political/media uproar over Trayvon Martin's shooting, only two things are indisputably clear: A 17-year-old boy is dead, and George Zimmerman shot... more
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Maggie Gallagher (Mar 29, 2012)
The shocked look on CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin's face as he emerged from the Supreme Court's oral arguments over Obamacare was priceless:
"This was a train... more
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Maggie Gallagher (Mar 23, 2012)
The Opera House in Seattle was the setting for Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and the annual board meeting of his church of Starbucks.
That's what it felt like -- what with... more
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Maggie Gallagher (Mar 15, 2012)
All day this past Tuesday, I crisscrossed Mississippi on the Rick Bus, a Susan B. Anthony List-led independent effort to turn out Rick Santorum voters who care about life,... more
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Maggie Gallagher (Mar 08, 2012)
It was a bad night for Mitt Romney.
Don't kid yourself, Romney supporters. The mixed vote on Super Tuesday is a profound setback for the fragile front-runner.
I spoke... more
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Maggie Gallagher (Mar 01, 2012)
Can the government order you to pay for anything if it calls it "health care"?
Can President Obama make you choose between your religious faith and your health... more
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Maggie Gallagher (Feb 23, 2012)
President Obama, you do not speak for women. Stop claiming -- you and other Democrats -- that when you try to ram abortion-inducing drugs and contraception mandates down the... more
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Maggie Gallagher (Feb 16, 2012)
In an appearance on Al Jazeera, I was asked: Why is gay marriage emerging as a big issue in the campaign?
Obviously economic issues dominate this year, as they do every... more
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Maggie Gallagher (Feb 09, 2012)
President Obama's attack on Catholic organizations has managed to do what the bishops have been unable to do, as Peggy Noonan points out: Unite the Catholic right and the... more
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Maggie Gallagher (Feb 01, 2012)
Let's take a break from politics to ask the burning question: How did Karen Santorum and Ann Romney get so lucky?
Just who are the happiest wives in... more
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Maggie Gallagher (Jan 27, 2012)
American women are both incredibly dogmatic and anxious about our mothering.
When Amy Chua described her intense efforts to push her two daughters into high... more
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Maggie Gallagher (Jan 20, 2012)
The headline at the online magazine Miller-McCune.com just about says it all: "Sex on the Brain Proves Costly for Men."
In an intriguing set of empirical... more
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Maggie Gallagher (Jan 14, 2012)
Lost in the political shuffle in New Hampshire was an epic U.S. Supreme Court decision this week in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment... more
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Maggie Gallagher (Jan 06, 2012)
On Tuesday night in Iowa, he stood before the cheering throngs like a Republican Rocky, or better yet, a latter-day Rudy suddenly lifted above his Notre Dame teammates in a... more