I don’t typically care for psychological portraits that purport to explain someone’s political beliefs or motivations, but somehow I found this dissection of conservative activist Maggie Gallagher’s anti-gay marriage a compelling read. There’s no short blurb worth excerpting really, but if you find yourself wondering how Gallagher can write some of the things she writes, I encourage you to read the article in full. Take it all with a grain of salt (it is psychological exploration after all) but the article is well-researched, and compassionately written. Strangely it has had the affect of making me more sympathetic of Gallagher (though not of her positions, which I find mostly revolting.) It’s hard to be completely sympathetic of someone who would deny others freedoms because they themselves have no appreciation of those freedoms though, and as always it’s difficult for me to understand political inclinations that are premised on entirely irrational beliefs. Still, an overall interesting read.