Maggie Gallagher is a nationally syndicated columnist and a leading voice in the new marriage movement. She is the author of three books including The Case for Marriage: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier, and Better-Off Financially with Linda J. Waite. Her previous books were the The Abolition of Marriage: How We Destroy Lasting Love and Enemies of Eros: How the Sexual Revolution is Destroying Family, Marriage and Sex. She makes frequent media appearances and lectures on social issues. She lives in Westchester, NY with her husband and two sons. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2012 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Thu, 03 May 2012 14:14:00 GMT Thu, 03 May 2012 14:14:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ A few years ago, beauty queen Carrie Prejean innocently answered a question about gay marriage with a polite 'no.' She was viciously personally attacked by Miss USA pageant judge Perez Hilton, who posted a video of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2012/05/03/dan_savage_and_carrie_prejean ce9fc2f3-ee92-4d05-8afa-7993481be783 Thu, 03 May 2012 14:14:00 GMT Sarah Palin was the first to recognize the problem: By participating in President Obama's signature education initiative, the Common Core Standards, Alaska would lose control over its own curriculum. On May 31, 2009,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2012/04/26/sarah_palin_was_a_prophet_about_obamas_education_takeover 00c92469-7612-4be0-b3b4-c6dc7666d824 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT The Democrats' war on women meme is failing. If you read between the lines of the April 17 poll from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, you can see it's President Obama, not Gov. Romney, who has... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2012/04/19/this_election_is_dog_meat 4fd4f23b-217e-495a-bb6e-e4d450607a16 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:26:00 GMT Will chicks dig Mitt? Or did Republicans blow it by attacking President Obama's decision to impose intrusive new mandates on religious charities requiring the nuns of EWTN, a Catholic television network, to pay for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2012/04/13/obamas_headfake_on_women fd9b1cfc-9f15-4796-97c5-3720fa819ac0 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:07:00 GMT In the whole swirling political/media uproar over Trayvon Martin's shooting, only two things are indisputably clear: A 17-year-old boy is dead, and George Zimmerman shot him. Nothing we can do can bring Trayvon back.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2012/04/05/arrest_george_zimmerman 5986b31a-b05a-452e-aaf5-d5fa4f60525d Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:44:00 GMT The shocked look on CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin's face as he emerged from the Supreme Court's oral arguments over Obamacare was priceless: "This was a train wreck for the Obama administration," Toobin... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2012/03/29/the_longawaited_coming_of_a_conservative_court 54852468-7b0d-4e30-a619-92b183ca590e Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:01:00 GMT The Opera House in Seattle was the setting for Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and the annual board meeting of his church of Starbucks. That's what it felt like -- what with the heart-stirring videos, the soulful songs... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2012/03/23/dump_starbucks 27b77d4a-737f-4a3a-b04d-dd70ab62b96f Fri, 23 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT All day this past Tuesday, I crisscrossed Mississippi on the Rick Bus, a Susan B. Anthony List-led independent effort to turn out Rick Santorum voters who care about life, marriage and religious liberty. On the long... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2012/03/15/is_romney_electable 8b8cbcc0-6a8c-48c0-aae3-c684ddfc63b3 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:26:00 GMT It was a bad night for Mitt Romney. Don't kid yourself, Romney supporters. The mixed vote on Super Tuesday is a profound setback for the fragile front-runner. I spoke on Tuesday afternoon with a dear friend who is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2012/03/08/the_antiromney_vote f0577c2e-25a1-4064-b157-11d705564fd1 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:38:00 GMT Can the government order you to pay for anything if it calls it "health care"? Can President Obama make you choose between your religious faith and your health care coverage? Enter Senate bill 1467, the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2012/03/01/can_obama_force_nuns_to_pay_for_abortioninducing_drugs d5080845-d367-4c57-aad9-c55a8abd5873 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:19:00 GMT President Obama, you do not speak for women. Stop claiming -- you and other Democrats -- that when you try to ram abortion-inducing drugs and contraception mandates down the throats of religious charities, schools and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2012/02/23/womens_support_for_santorum_surging d3bcce0f-7af4-4263-8e53-80497431b5c3 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:21:00 GMT In an appearance on Al Jazeera, I was asked: Why is gay marriage emerging as a big issue in the campaign? Obviously economic issues dominate this year, as they do every bad economic year. But thanks to President... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2012/02/16/why_is_gay_marriage_an_issue_in_this_campaign a737aae3-4a24-42b2-a407-93f74e613265 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:12:00 GMT President Obama's attack on Catholic organizations has managed to do what the bishops have been unable to do, as Peggy Noonan points out: Unite the Catholic right and the Catholic left. Obama's decision to use... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2012/02/09/the_catholic_tribe_closes_ranks_against_obamas_intrusion d889cd55-f0ee-4652-9b14-339346c50035 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:13:00 GMT Let's take a break from politics to ask the burning question: How did Karen Santorum and Ann Romney get so lucky? Just who are the happiest wives in America? According to a new report by the University of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2012/02/01/the_happiest_wives_in_america c2a9866c-a7ed-4b31-a603-1a1dbf020a1f Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:21:00 GMT American women are both incredibly dogmatic and anxious about our mothering. When Amy Chua described her intense efforts to push her two daughters into high achievement in school, in music and, hence, in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2012/01/27/the_high_cost_of_being_a_tiger_mom 9d7c9942-d49a-471c-87af-48f1d1040882 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT