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what is interesting to me at least is the extent to which an equal protection issue has been transformed into this bizarro theater of the sustained mobilization of bigotry. the motivations are obvious: as an equal protection issue, the right has nothing to hang its hat on--there is no logic that would prevent marriage protections from being extended to include people who happen to love someone of the same sex--the issue had to be altered to mobilize people against it.
anyway:
i hope that the administration's "focus on public diplomacy"--which yesterdays round of televised talking heads all emphasized as fundamental to the 2nd term (after a disastrous first term) means that bush never addresses the issue.
why would he, really?
more broadly, anything that functions to drive a wedge between the republicans and the christian right is fine by me.
anything that prompts the christian right to see itself as having been played is fine by me.
anything that causes them to have to move from the discursive to practical level to show their political strength is also fine by me: i figure the best way for the christian right to push itself back into a well-deserved minority position is for them to have to actually show themselves as a physical presence in american politics, rather than remaining a virtual presence the position of which is shaped by the way republican political argumentation works.
so i hope bush does nothing and the christian right has to deliver on its threats.
a pox on both their houses.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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