71% Say Newsom Beating Gallagher in Gay Marriage Debate

The California Supreme Court may have just weighed in on gay marriage, but participants in the NOW on PBS gay marriage interactive debate are still having their say.

The unique "Issue Clash" pits San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom against National Organization for Marriage president Maggie Gallagher and allows users to choose the questions and rebuttals they wish to see, vote for a winner, and add their own arguments on a feedback board.

Currently, 71% of the visitors feel Newsom is winning the gay marriage debate.

Excerpts:

Gavin Newsom: Gay marriage does not threaten traditional marriage or require churches to perform marriages. This is a scare tactic that has been supported by millions of dollars in ads in California and other states throughout the nation. By allowing gay Americans to get married it in turn makes marriage stronger by affirming their commitment to each other.

Maggie Gallagher: Gay marriage advocates like Gavin sincerely believe that there are no morally relevant differences between same-sex and opposite-sex unions and that the people who see a difference are either ignorant or bigoted. So of course civil unions aren't acceptable to gay marriage advocates. Civil unions are an attempt to provide practical benefits to help gay people live their lives without disrupting the meaning of marriage. It's very clear this is not what gay rights advocates want.

Join the debate here.

Comments

[Dots]

"gay people" sounds like "icky people" coming from your lips Maggie.

Good article in The New Republic
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=aed7b949-7b03-4e5d-810f-ef651863251c

God bless Ted Olson and David Boies.

[Dr Manhattan]

If gay marriage supporters are trying to win over people with more "conservative" views, they should find someone better than somebody pubically identifed as an ad*u*lter. To people that like him, that may not an issue. However, it probably turns off voters that may be needed if this comes back again as an voter initiative.

[weeshee]

How does allowing same-sex marriage affect American culture?
Maggie Gallagher: Marriage has its own dignity and purpose and its own mission: bringing together male and female so that children can know and be known by, love and be loved by, their own mother and father.
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I so detest this asinine claim from the Breeders. I am not homosexual, and am married to a wonderful man with whom I share a wonderful life. We do not have children, and most likely never will. Is my marriage not valid in her eyes, since we never plan to have children? It is an awful statement about what this lady seems to think constitutes a marriage. It sounds to me as if she is claiming that "marriage" should be reserved for the breeders, and no one else... which could include my husband and myself at this point, since having rugrats is not going to happen.

Personally, I think the states should get out of the issue of marriage.... issue licenses equally and without regard to the sexual orientation of the couple requesting the licenses. Same-sex couples need to be allowed the same protections under the law that are given to their hetro counterparts. Anything less is just bigotry.

[jmpurser]

An American standing up for "separate but equal" is a discrace.

[rcdcr]

Maggie Gallagher and her 'followers' are selfish Heterosexuals.

Me, me, me, us, us, us... Marriage is OURS and ONLY ours.

You aren't the only sexual oritentation on the planet, Maggie.

And for the record, Homosexuality is no more immoral (or moral) than Heterosexuality. It is simply a scientific fact of life.

Why Maggie Gallagher feels the need to continue her public abuse of Gay & Lesbian Americans is a question only she knows the TRUE answer to.

[mollymac]

good post reder.