Maggie Gallagher

“Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families.”

“For the first time in human history, we are conducting a great social experiment. We are trying to raise a generation of children without their fathers.”

“The problem with same-sex marriage is not that it's gay. It's that it's not marriage.”

“If we say that marriage is whatever two people want it to be, then we'll have to accept polygamy.”

“The gay-marriage movement is an elite-driven legal and political movement, not a grassroots phenomenon.”

“The core of the marriage argument is that it's a norm, and that norms are public. They're not just private.”

“What marriage is for is to bring together the two great halves of humanity, male and female, and to create a context for the bearing and rearing of children.”

“The family is the original Department of Health, Education and Welfare.”

“The argument for gay marriage is an argument for the deinstitutionalization of marriage.”

“If you redefine marriage to include same-sex couples, you are redefining it for everyone.”

“We are at a cultural tipping point on marriage, and we have to stand up and fight.”

“In the long run, the real argument is not whether we're going to have gay marriage. The real argument is whether we're going to have marriage.”

“Marriage is not just about love. It's about creating a stable social institution for the next generation.”

“There's no such thing as a gay marriage.”

“The idea that you can create a family with two people of the same gender is a very radical idea.”