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Margaret Gallagher Srivastav (born September 14, 1960), better known by her working name Maggie Gallagher, is an American writer and socially conservative commentator. She wrote a syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate from 1995 to 2013 and has written books. She serves as president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, a nonprofit organization which lobbies on issues of marriage law. She is an executive committee member, former president and former chairman of the board of the National Organization for Marriage, which opposes same-sex marriage and other legal recognition of same-sex partnerships.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 About the National Organization for Marriage )〕 == Biography == Maggie Gallagher was born on September 14, 1960 to William Walter Gallagher Sr. and the former Darrilyn Doris Stenz. She is originally from Lake Oswego, Oregon, where she attended Lakeridge High School. She has three siblings: Kathleen, William Jr., and Colleen.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Amos, Capron, Carnes family )〕 Her parents were initially active in their local Catholic parish, but her mother left the Church when Maggie was eight, but remained interested in spirituality, while Maggie became what she later described as a "pro-life atheist" and a reader of Ayn Rand and Robert A. Heinlein. In 1982, she earned a B.A. in Religious Studies from Yale University, where she belonged to the Party of the Right in the Yale Political Union. While at Yale she tried marijuana once but did not like it〔http://www.salon.com/2012/02/08/the_making_of_gay_marriages_top_foe/〕 On October 6, 2010, she returned to the Union to debate against same-sex marriage with opponent Evan Wolfson, executive director of Freedom to Marry and fellow alumnus of the Yale Political Union. Shortly before she was due to graduate she fell pregnant after a relationship with a fellow party member. She gave birth to a son, conceived and born out of wedlock. 〔She initially planned to put the baby up for adoption, but then changed her mind. Neither of the parents thought they should marry. According to Gallagher the father eventually abandoned her and became uninterested in their child. In her twenties she reverted to Catholicism because her experience as a single mother made her consider the necessity of fathers and the linkage of sex to procreation. Gallagher married Raman Srivastav in 1993, a Hindu,〔http://www.salon.com/2012/02/08/the_making_of_gay_marriages_top_foe/〕 and they have one son together. Gallagher attended the premiere reading of ''8'', Dustin Lance Black's play about the trial surrounding California's Proposition 8, where a depiction of her was performed by Jayne Houdyshell. She expressed the opinion that most people would find the work "kind of dull". In a Los Angeles performance, the Gallagher role was performed by Jane Lynch. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maggie Gallagher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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