Quotes from Maggie Gallagher

I am just an ordinary Catholic.

Children had a special status - protected from the outside world - and they dressed for the part in a way that made that special status immediately visible to themselves and the adults.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 inspire.

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.