If you ever believed that Maggie Gallagher is concerned only with marriage and not with whether or not LGBT people themselves should be generally accepted and gently folded into society, then let the NOM co-founder's latest writing on her Culture War Victory Fund blog serve as proof to the contrary:

So let me leave you this week with a piece of underreported, astonishing and very good news.

After an emotional debate, Methodists at a national legislative meeting Thursday upheld the denomination’s policy that same-sex relationships are “incompatible with Christian teaching.’”

Delegates at the General Conference voted by about 60 percent to 40 percent against softening the language on homosexuality in their Book of Discipline, which contains church laws and doctrine.

The United Methodist Church was faced with a choice: earn the applause of the world or stick with the teachings of Jesus Christ.

It’s a miracle, but they did the right thing.

Expect more miracles. We know Who wins this fight in the end.
Marriagephobia and the GOP [Maggie Gallagher writing for Culture War Victory Fund]

For those of you not familiar with the Methodist situation, just know that the debate was over proposals that would simply affirm the worth and contributions of gay, lesbian, and bisexual Methodists, with various changes proposed (and ultimately rejected) that would have done little more than lessen intra-church judgment. But now here we have Maggie—a Roman Catholic by faith, a Republican by affiliation,  and a "marriage warrior" by volition—not only lauding this church for remaining a less-than-welcoming place for some kinds of devotees, but actually calling the exclusion a "miracle"? Seriously?!

My first thought: Is this really where we've set the bar on miracles?! But then, after contemplating how we went all the way from water-into-wine to discrimination-into-prayer, I just can't get over the audacity of Maggie Gallagher. She's constantly talking to us about religious freedom, church autonomy, and about marriage being a cause that doesn't require hostility towards LGBT people—but yet this, a heartbreaking choice for LGBT Methodists delivered by a church to which she has no affiliation, is the kind of thing that Maggie steps up to applaud as somehow connected to her socio-political work in the area of marriage? The kind of thing that she connects to a larger column about the GOP and marriage?  The kind of thing that she deems a "miracle," in fact?

Sorry, Maggie, but by showing the clearly less-than-LGBT-friendly views that so obviously underly your policy work, you're only hollowing out your own "protect marriage" groundwork. You may think you know Who (capital "W") wins in the end. But as this marriage debate continues to play out in the mortal (little "m") world, don't be surprised if your faith overreaches increase your number of immediate, Earthly losses.