Maggie Gallagher has suggested a
'popular insurrection' against proposed gay marriage laws in Rhode
Island and Maryland is going unreported.
The board chair of the National
Organization for Marriage (NOM), the nation's most vociferous
opponent of gay marriage, made
her comments on Tuesday's
In The Market With Janet Parshall radio
program.
“Here's the truth,” she told
listeners. “They're pushing gay marriage in Rhode Island and
Maryland. Both of these are deep blue states that were totally –
we had a Republican wave election, right, Rhode Island, Maryland,
'What's a Republican. We've never heard of Republicans.' These are
really Democratic, hard-core Democratic states. And they were
suppose to be easy targets to pass gay marriage. Instead, in both
states what we're seeing is a popular insurrection. I'm not saying
it's exactly what's happening in Egypt, but it's an extraordinary
story that's being under reported about, you know, in these states
where it was supposed to be easy to pass gay marriage.”
Gay marriage activists in Rhode Island
first proposed such a law in 1997. Before independent Governor
Lincoln Chafee was elected on November 2, a Republican held the
office since 1995.
Maryland's Democratic Governor Martin
O'Malley succeeded one term Republican Governor Robert L. Ehrlich.