Maggie Gallagher: Whether I'm Married or Not is Irrelevant
Yesterday Republican presidential candidate and NOM investigator Fred Karger sent out an email speculating that 'marriage defender' Maggie Gallagher may not actually be married because she never wears a wedding ring in public or appears with her husband Roman Srivastav.
Gallagher spoke to Buzzfeed about Karger's accusations:
Gallagher laughed when asked about Karger's speculation, and said "I think I would know better than Fred."
Gallagher, who was a single mother for years after college, says she married her husband Raman Srivastav in Arizona in 1993: "We are still married and living together. He's a very private person."
"They just make up all kind of stuff about me," she said. "It doesn't really matter. I could be divorced and I still could not be for gay marriage. I don't really see that it's relevant. It is a fact — I am in fact married. I've only been married once. I am not about to get a divorce."
Said Karger, who has been pursuing NOM's corrupt election finances and tactics for years: "I'm taking the gloves off. I've been a little reticent to go after [Gallagher] personally, but no more."
let's be fair to patrick gallagher - he doesn't take hush money, he's a young progressive liberal man who is tragically still under the thumb of a mother who has guilt-tripped him his entire life. he's waiting for her to die off so he can live a real life.
Posted by: LittleKiwi | Apr 13, 2012 2:00:31 PM
She looks like a goddam thumb.
Posted by: DeeVee | Apr 13, 2012 2:14:17 PM
Sorry, an adult man who hasn't stood up for his own beliefs is only "tragic" for his lack of a spine.
It's NOM's sad belief that by playing "keep away" with marriage makes it more valuable, that's it's weakened by granting greater access to it, rather than it being strengthened by more people seeing it as a desired ideal. To them rights are a finite resource, that when others gain rights they somehow lose some of their own, even though they cannot demonstrate or even explain how that supposed loss comes about.
Posted by: Caliban | Apr 13, 2012 2:22:16 PM
hey, i'm not letting him off the hook. what you permit, you promote - as my mum always said.
but he's not taking financial "hush-money" - he's doing what far too many others in his situation do: taking hush-tolerance, instead.
just want to be clear about that. slight distinction.
if he were to come out, it would call into question his mother's character on a much grander and profound level. and he should do it.
Posted by: LittleKiwi | Apr 13, 2012 2:38:10 PM
Ironic who someone who insists her own marital status is irrelevant, while insisting that other people's marriages are highly relevant. Only in the pea-sized conservative brain do things like this make sense.
Posted by: JeffreyRO5 | Apr 13, 2012 11:41:17 PM