Wake up Maggie, L.O.'s got something to say to you

Maggie Gallagher. Did you ever believe in anything? Besides stuffing your face and getting bad haircuts? L.O. cannot believe that you were on the take. Throughout the years, L.O. has had opportunity to read your columns in L.O.'s hometown newspaper. You struck L.O. as the type who didn't need to be paid---your fervent belief in the dangers of homosexuality and single motherhood and reproductive health seemed to be your source of energy and inspiration. L.O. was shocked, shocked, to find that you'd been on the take to spout off about Bush administration policies on marriage. And that the take was so small. L.O.'s read your columns. The way you, a Yale graduate who lives in Westchester and who runs think tanks, look and sound like a midwestern housewife was perfect---you came across with your hate-filled columns as benignly and mildly as Andy Griffith. Surely that was worth at least more than 50k. Do you have gambling debts? An addiction to Stackers? Why, Maggie, why? It makes L.O. feel so cheap. You seemed like you were a true believer. It hurts to think that a woman of principle like you should be so quick to be used--to put your reputation and your wonderful, wonderful work on the line. What will the other homophobes and misogynists say? Will they be hurt? Or are they, too, just whores who put no limit on the amount of humiliation they have to endure, the reprehensible things they have to do, so long as they're still in the game? A highly intelligent, righteous person, why did you forget to draw for yourself the moral lines in which you've tangled up stronger, more worthy people? When did you decide to become an amoral person?

L.O. thought you were better than that, Maggie Gallagher. For shame.