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Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Maggie Gallagher

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Tags: teacher, good, good teacher, being

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Maggie Gallagher

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Tags: politics, power, political

About Author
Margaret Gallagher (born September 14, 1960) is an American writer, socially conservative commentator, and activist. She wrote a syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate from 1995 to 2013 and has written several books. Gallagher founded the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, a small, socially conservative think tank. She is also a co-founder of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), an advocacy group which opposes same-sex marriage and other legal recognition of same-sex partnerships; she has served as president and as chairman of the board of NOM.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

Maggie Gallagher

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

Tags: faith

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites instead it fragments.

Maggie Gallagher

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites instead it fragments.

Tags: marriage, culture, desire, unites

Same-sex marriage is not the future.

Maggie Gallagher

Same-sex marriage is not the future.

Tags: marriage, future, same sex marriage

Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

Maggie Gallagher

Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

Tags: marriage

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspir...

Maggie Gallagher

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspir...

Tags: romantic, love, eyes, inspire

The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimen...

Maggie Gallagher

The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimen...

Tags: opportunity, vision

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Maggie Gallagher

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Tags: love

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

Maggie Gallagher

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

Tags: tyranny, prejudice

Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public sc...

Maggie Gallagher

Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public sc...

Tags: control, teachers, resources