Social conservative Phyllis Schlafly has said that she was
“personally offended” by the “nasty” names used to describe
gay marriage foes in the Supreme Court's ruling striking down the
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
The 88-year-old Schlafly, founder of the socially conservative
Eagle Forum, discussed the ruling with Steve Deace on his radio show.
“You wrote an interesting reaction to the US Supreme Court, I
guess we would call it 'opinion,' but it really looked to me,
Phyllis, like five justices, and Anthony Kennedy in particular, chose
to write what amounts to an anti-Christian polemic disguised as a
legal opinion,” Deace
said. “And it seems like you sort of got the same vibe from
what they wrote.”
“Well, I was extremely offended at all the nasty names he called
us. I just think it's so inappropriate, unprecedented and really
nasty for the justice to say that the reason DOMA, the Defense of
Marriage Act, was passed, and those who stand up for traditional
marriage is that they have animus against gays, they want to deny
them equal dignity, that we want to brand them as unworthy, we want
to humiliate their children, we have a hateful desire to harm a
politically unpopular group. I just think, I feel personally
insulted by what Justice Kennedy said. I don't think that's true,
the idea that anybody who stood up for traditional marriage is guilty
of all that hate in his heart is just outrageous.”