Maggie Gallagher Out at NOM; Replacement No Better

[alp227]

Source: The Advocate

Maggie Gallagher is out as the top leader at the antigay National Organization for Marriage, the group announced today. But don't expect much to change.

She is being replaced by John Eastman, a former dean of Chapman University Law School in Calfornia, who gained notoriety as a vocal backer of Proposition 8. He actually criticized supporters of Prop. 8 for being too conciliatory in their argument that “marriage” is a special title that should be reserved for straight couples.

“If (gay couples) deserve the rights, why not call it marriage?” he told the Orange County Register in 2009. “When it’s argued that there are simply different names for the same relationship, public opinion will say, ‘Why should you have different names?’”

Instead, Eastman argues that straight people are superior to gays because they can procreate, and so marriage is just for people who can procreate.

Read more: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/09/22/Maggie_Gallagher_Out_at_NOM_Replacement_No_Better/

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

1. holy crap - this guy was a dean of a law school?

If he can argue that marriage is just for people who can procreate, how far is that from restricting rights of women because we are the ones that pop the babies out.

[No Elephants]

9. A law school in a university founded in 1861 as Hesperion by the Disciples of Christ sect.

The law school itself was founded in 1995.

"The current Dean of Chapman Law is former U.S. Congressman Tom Campbell, who is the former dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.<10> Campbell's predecessor was John C. Eastman, who unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for Attorney General of California."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapman_University_School_of_Law



Need I add that Tom Campbell is a Republican, too?



Fun facts from wiki about Chapman Law:



"Bar passage rates

Based on a 2002-2007 5 year average, 50.4% of Chapman Law graduates passed the California State Bar.<9>
Post-graduation employment

Based on a 2002-2007 5 year average, of Chapman Law graduates were employed 9 months after graduation.<9>"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapman_University_School_of_Law



See anything there to wonder about? What do you want to be a lot of those graduates ended up getting jobs from Bushco and other Republican office holders?


Out of an excess of fairness, I note that Chapman Law's own website indicates that bar passage rates may have improved since 2007.

[SoapBox]

2. ...what a dick this guy is.

Wow...another CONservaTurd Jackass.

[awoke_in_2003]

3. what about couples...

who can't procreate due to infertility?

[PSzymeczek]

6. What about couples

who can't procreate due to age?

[awoke_in_2003]

7. Yep...

by their standards, my wife and I are not a couple. When we were first dating, she had to have her ovaries removed.

[Firebrand Gary]

4. Eastman has substantial ties to Clarence Thomas.

Apparently he used to clerk for him.

[Downwinder]

5. No only anti-gay but also anti-senior.

[sakabatou]

8. Really? WTF?

So only fertile people can marry?