Oh Maggie!!

Maggie Gallagher has been shockingly quiet on same-sex marriage issues since she left the National Organization For Marriage (NOM), and even last week’s Supreme Court decisions on DOMA and Prop 8 didn’t wake her, until now.

At the National Review, her racist home on the web, Gallagher had a “chat” with NRO’s editor-at-large, Kathryn Jean Lopez — also known for some strange reason as “K-Lo.”
In this chat, titled “The Roe of Marriage,” Gallagher still insists same-sex marriage is not inevitable — a bit of a change since she’s focused her efforts recently on ensuring that when same-sex marriage becomes legal across all 50 states those who oppose equality will not be labeled “bigots.”
And amidst Gallagher’s insistence of pulling out a “win” for the anti-gay team, she proclaims that U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy declared a “fatwa against us” — the “us” being same-sex marriage  opponents — in his DOMA ruling last week.
(Curiously, Gallagher didn’t mention the Prop 8 decision, that the Yes On 8 crew — funded by NOM — were deemed to not have standing. It’s amazing how far she has distanced herself from the organization she co-founded. Wonder why?)
Here’s the excerpt:

KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: Are last week’s rulings on marriage as monumental, with the staying power, of Roe v. Wade?
MAGGIE GALLAGHER: What you are really asking is: Will we concede the legitimacy of Kennedy’s fatwa against us, or will we respond with a sustained opposition — legal, political, cultural, and of the moral imagination?
I don’t believe in inevitability, I believe in human freedom and our power to shape the future.

Now, did Gallagher call Kennedy a Muslim? No. She just doesn’t have any idea about what she’s talking.

A fatwā, by definition is a legal opinion handed down by a particular religious leader — of the Islamic faith. They have less authority than a state’s laws do.
So what was her point?
Well, this is the beauty of Maggie Gallagher. She is so far off track from the rest of America, and her ideas and concepts are so far-fetched that few can even grasp them.
In her “chat” with “K-Lo,” Gallagher concludes:

Marriage, after gay marriage, is an under-defined commitment to love and caretaking, whose public character and status is newly uncertain. Why love? Why sex? Why just two? What does this have to do with parenting? What other relationships have an equal right to be counted as marriage?
Gay-marriage advocates will work this out, or more likely ignore — with the exception of a few like David Blankenhorn and Jonathan Rauch — these questions in favor of pursuing an ever more energetic strategy of using the power of law and culture to push new expanded equality norms around gay and transgender relationships.
I hope I am wrong, but so far I’ve been pretty right on the money. With Kennedy’s judgment, and his contempt of dissent, we’ve entered into a new era of the relationships between the American political order and traditional Judeo-Christian moral views.

Yes, “so far I’ve been pretty right on the money,” Gallagher claims.
In December of last year, Gallagher predicted that Justice Anthony “Kennedy will overturn DOMA (perhaps joined by Roberts) and then uphold the right of states to refuse to accept gay marriage (i.e. uphold Prop 8).”
So much for “pretty right on the money.”
The good news for all, including Gallagher: Maggie Gallagher has quickly become a relic of the past. In short, Gallagher and her ilk have become irrelevant.