Paulitics 2011
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To be honest, I don't see this having a huge effect. The sensationalism isn't even subtle:
"He wants to abolish marriage!"
"He wants to abolish marriage!"
To be honest, I don't see this having a huge effect. The sensationalism isn't even subtle:
"He wants to abolish marriage!"
You don't know Iowa.
Or NC. These people are crazy-powerful. The problem is that these people will lie in a heartbeat to accomplish their goals, but they are an allegedly Christian org, therefore no matter how crazy the stuff they make up, people will believe it because Christians aren't supposed to lie, and certainly a Christian group as prominent as that one isn't going to lie...
But they do. It has been my limited experience that the NOM/AFA/CC people are just as quick, if not quicker, to lie as any other group of political scum.
I got into a debate with a constitutional law professor, who was committed to the idea that, if the federal government didn't intervene, immediately, everyone was going to get divorced and no one was ever going to get married, ever again -- except for homosexuals, presumably (just for the novelty?). I asked him whether he thought the institution of marriage had been improved by state licensing requirements. I explained to him that the state had not invented marriage, and could only harm it further by regulating it further. He just looked at me as if I had just landed from another planet. Some people, people who should know better (that professor called himself a Christian, considered himself a conservative, and had tried cases before SCOTUS), really don't get it.
Personally, I don't care if you refer to your Jack Russel Terrier as "the missus." Frankly, it's none of my business. Just, no more laws, please. Please?
I find it frightening that such a person has argued cases before the Supreme Court.