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um...i have no idea how the above is relevant.
look, this is an equal protection issue. period. the right knows that, if the matter is allowed to stay framed on these grounds, they will loose every time. and it puts them in a bad place. so what you get instead is crap left over from the christian coalitions mobilizations against proposition 2 in colorado (i think) about "special rights"--which is idiotic--and then a newer, more vile stream of simple bigotry wrapped up as a defense of tradition. with a little dollop of persecution complex thrown in for good measure.
so what results is that you have the christian right whining loudly about their fears of having the "homosexual lifestyle" "shoved down their throats" while they work to stuff their reactionary (breeder) conceptions down everyone's throat by every available political means.
what you also get is an effort to gut the entire idea of equal protection by gutting the idea of equality BEFORE THE LAW...which is a move that is so abysmal in its logic and possible consequences that i cannot imagine how any conservative--who in the main are about a version of equality before the law, framed in the fetishism of the fiction of the isolated individual--are able to choke out the sentences out without difficulty.
the christian right wants to dictate who other people can choose to love.
it is as simple as that.
even as they wave the flag and talk about "freedom" they want to dictate who others can choose to love.
great program, folks.
you should be proud.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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