10 Comments

1. Ash
   Posted May 25, 2012 at 8:01 pm | Permalink

   Maggie's experience taught her what social scientific evidence confirms: divorce and family breakdown are not worthy of celebration. The educated might have thought otherwise (presumably, while enjoying stable, wedlocked child-bearing themselves); but experience is the best teacher.

   I'm thankful that Maggie's experience helped to transform her into the marriage warrior she is today. With her advocacy, and that of others, lets hope today's generation can regain the knowledge that the "backward," "primitive," humans of yore took for granted: children should be born within marriage.

2. Pete
   Posted May 25, 2012 at 9:22 pm | Permalink

   Right Ash. So why does she not wear her wedding ring, take her husbands last name and never appear in public together. Traditional marriage? Riiiight.

3. Ash
   Posted May 25, 2012 at 9:27 pm | Permalink

   When I saw that there were now two comments on the thread, I said to myself: "It will be Pete."

4. Randy E King
   Posted May 25, 2012 at 10:25 pm | Permalink

   Well done Maggie.

   You fight this battle on your own terms; for your own reasons, but I see the value in it.

   Thank you.

5. AM
   Posted May 25, 2012 at 10:39 pm | Permalink

   Ash
   Seems like Pete is stalking you.
   Kinda creepy.

6. Ash
   Posted May 26, 2012 at 12:38 am | Permalink

   You’re not the first person to say that, AM. Others have noted the same thing when observing “Pete’s” Facebook behavior.

7. Sarah
   Posted May 26, 2012 at 4:00 pm | Permalink

   Maggie forgets that sometimes it is "the right thing" to NOT have a father or mother when that parent is abusive, or a bad influence. PERIOD. The celebration of single moms in the 80's was not a celebration of the destruction of families, it was simply pointing out that women had become empowered enough to be able to raise a child alone as opposed to abortion or being in a violent relationship. Details Maggie, details.

   Secondly, having two parent, regardless of the gender is better than one parent according to those studies and intelligent people she is quoting. It is amazing that so many people believe what she says as truth when she is only giving the pieces of information that fits with her PERSONAL BELIEF. Anyone can edit and paraphrase a document or study to make it sound like it supports their ideas, unless you give it all in whole. Shame on you Maggie and shame on you NOM for being so good and being liars.

   If NOM is truly concerned about saving families and marriages, then maybe they should focus on things that actually destroy families and marriages like divorce, abuse, alcoholism, etc, etc etc. This focus on children should have a mom and a dad in order to be raised properly is pushing women into having abortions. Good job NOM, way to teach women that abortion is better than being a single parent.

8. twingirl2
   Posted May 26, 2012 at 6:47 pm | Permalink

   Well spoken, Maggie! As a child who lost my mother at age 6 or 7, I confirm that the absence of a parent is very difficult, not only because of losing a loved one, but because each parent brings something special to both the children and the spouse. Even remarriage and/or adoption should be understood as the best attempts to replace the "void" that are possible under the circumstances. To ignore or dismiss the "void" is cruel, hurtful, and ingenuous.

9. Sue
   Posted May 27, 2012 at 12:08 pm | Permalink

   Sarah,
   Your arguments are all straw man. Look it up, if you don't know what a straw man fallacy is. To assume that someone is advocating abortion because they advocate for traditional marriage is absurd - again, look up straw man fallacy. One thing I can't stand is deceit and that's one thing that SSM agenda is full of. When the public is not allowed to discuss the realities of the gay lifestyle and the potential causes of homosexual behavior, when the public is forced to treat homosexuality like it is a productive rather than counter-productive adaptation to environmental stimuli, then most of us with any logic left in our brains feel obligated to assert the truth. Your argument doesn't fool us, nor does your faulty logic. Kind of amazing how people for traditional marriage are treated like they are the "brainwashed" section of society, when it is truly the other way around. Children have inherent human needs and the SSM agenda is too self-absorbed to see that.

10. Daughter of Eve
    Posted May 28, 2012 at 3:29 am | Permalink

    Conflating the promotion of abortion with the preservation of real marriage is nonsense and a red herring.

    Most same sex couples raising children aren't "gay" or homosexual; many are already kin. They won't be able to benefit from SS'M yet SSM will strip all women of the protections of presumption of paternity, whether "gay" or "straight." So, SSM is a bad deal for all women.