Graduate students are being kicked out of marriage counseling programs because they are unwilling to personally counsel gay couples on how to sustain their relationships.
A physician in California was penalized for not artificially impregnating a lesbian woman.
In Massachusetts and Washington D.C., Catholic Charities was driven out of the adoption business because it refused to place children with gay couples.
In Illinois, Catholic, evangelical and Lutheran adoption and foster care agencies are being probed for discrimination.
"What they've done now is that they've stopped trying to persuade people that gay marriage is a good idea," Gallagher said. "What they are doing is raising the cost of speaking out … by directing a relentless torrent of accusations and hatred against anyone who speaks, no matter how civilly, for marriage."
She said that wars don't end when one side is annihilated, but when one side loses the will to fight.
For the same-sex marriage proponents, Gallagher said victory would be having same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states as a constitutional right. Then they can "move onto the process of reshaping society so that objections to gay marriage or homosexuality are treated the way we treat racism."
But for Gallagher the fight against recognizing same-sex marriage is a means, not an end. It is one thing on the road to what she was working on before she entered the fray. "For me, victory is rebuilding a culture of marriage so that each year more children are born to and raised by a mother and father who love them in a decent, average good-enough marriage."
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This topic makes me sad. According to others on here I chose to be gay. I chose to destroy the natural family unit. I chose to be misunderstood. I chose to be lonely because I can't honestly have a loving relationship with somebody of the same More..
I will get on board the anti-Gay campaign as soon as there is concrete evidence from third-party, peer-reviewed studies that supports the notion that children raised in GLBT situations suffer in some important way that children raised in NOM-approved More..
My Gay marriage of 17 years has lasted longer then a lot of straight marriage. So if you want to fix marriage start with the ones your trying to protect. Stop divorce is where you should be putting your time and money.