Gay marriage foe Maggie Gallagher says
she supports heterosexuality and opposes homophobia.
Gallagher, the former president of the
National Organization for Marriage (NOM), wrote in a National
Review op-ed that she hopes society can promote
heterosexuality and discourage “cruel homophobia.”
“I personally still cherish the hope
that we can as a society eliminate cruel homophobia without
jettisoning heteronormativity – which is the need for social norms
and institutions to be oriented strongly around the problem and the
blessing that sex between men and women makes babies.”
“But so far, the disconnect between
sex, marriage and babies proceeds rapidly apace.”
Writing at ThinkProgress.org, Zack Ford
opined that Gallagher's goals were incompatible.
“At a basic level, it's logically
impossible to say that heterosexuality is better – or should be the
norm – compared to homosexuality without simultaneously stating
that homosexuality is worse – or abnormal. Either all people are
equal in society or they are not; she cannot have her straight-only
wedding cake and eat it stigma-free,” Ford
wrote.