Gail Collins Quotes
Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.
Collins, Gail. "The Irony of Gay Marriage." The New York Times, 2013.
Earlier, he had opposed same sex marriage, but as the population as a whole had a change of mind on this issue, so did he. By 2013, 16 States had modified their laws to allow gay marriage.
He recorded this Robo Call and sent it to 200,000 voter phones in Utah the week before the 2016 Presidential election. It was an important quotation for 2 reasons: First,it was an example of how the American Nazis, White Supremacists, racists, and nativists interpreted Trumps many comments feeling they had a Presidential Candidate for the first time who agreed with them. Trump however, vehemently denied that he was a white supremacists or a racist, however he generally did not repudiate Johnson and the other unsavory characters who endorsed, supported and campaigned for him. His campaign however, did issue a repudiation of this robocall effort. The claims about one of Trump’s opponents in Utah, Evan McMullin, were out and out lies. He was not a homosexual, and opposed gay marriage, although he stated that the Supreme Court decision was the “law of the land”. The other interesting facet about this quote is the kind of absurd and fallacious logic that extremist conservatives were often using in politics at that time. Even if someone had a homosexual mother, and was unmarried as an adult, it is absurd to conclude that he was therefore a “closet homosexual”. Children of homosexuals had no greater likelihood of being homosexuals than anyone else. (The percentage seems to be about 10 percent of all populations the world over.
Gail Collins is an American journalist, op-ed columnist and author, most recognized for her work with The New York Times. Joining the Times in 1995 as a member of the editorial board, she served as the paper's Editorial Page Editor from 2001 to 2007 and was the first woman to attain that position.
