The National Organization for Marriage’s Maggie Gallagher has made no secret of the fact that she has “a suspicion of men who want to get close to children while depriving them of mothers.”
And she also apparently has sympathy for mothers who flee with their children rather than abide by court orders, judging by this statement she made on the Lisa Miller/Janet Jenkins case:
In a Monday e-mail to CNA, Maggie Gallagher, president of the National Organization for Marriage, made general comments about the case.
“I have sympathy for the pre-eminent claims of natural parents versus legal parents, when the natural mother is a fit parent (which nobody has denied in this case). But we have to be a nation ruled by laws, even when those laws may be unjust.
“Let this act as a warning call: Don’t enter civil unions with people if you do not want to give them legal rights over your children. And do not give much faith in the ‘best interest of the child’ standard to protect your child. If the best interest of the child conflicts with fashionable legal norms, courts will not care what is in your child’s best interest.
“It cannot be in Lisa’s daughter’s interest to be forcibly moved to Vermont away from the only mother she has ever known. This case is a tragedy all around. I cannot endorse what Lisa Miller has done, but I understand it, and pity both women and most of all this child. I wish Lisa’s partner had the wisdom of Solomon, but I cannot blame her either,” Gallagher told CNA.
