House of Eratosthenes

1) Gay marriage is incompatible with Christianity (and for that matter, Islam & Judaism).
2) Gay marriage will end up infringing on religious freedom.
3) Civil unions could confer every “right” that marriage does.
4) Gay marriage may be where it starts, but it wouldn’t be where it ends.
5) Marriage already has enough problems as it is without gay marriage.

I myself am most concerned about items #2 and #5.

Along with a #6: It is a distraction. A deliberate, engineered distraction.

Here we are about to sit in judgment of the most extremist, most polarizing democrat administration since Jimmy Carter, if not before then…nobody can point to a single thing that’s better than it was three years ago, not one thing. Other than bin Laden being dead, anyway. It’s a provably failed run, a stellar example of management-by-salesmen. Not only is the verdict crystal clear, but this time, we simply can’t afford more of what we’ve been seeing…the voters who are intent on sending Obama home, are enthused, the voters who are intent on keeping Him where He is, are not…looks like trouble for the incumbent, to say nothing of the democrats in Congress…

And oh my, lookee here, it’s time for us all to get obsessed about gay marriage again.

What a sham. I guess this stuff works, if it didn’t work they wouldn’t keep doing it.

#6: It is a distraction. A deliberate, engineered distraction.

Yup. Should we be so foolhardy as to nominate Rick Santorum, this will be the election issue. The president is a leftist, the media are all leftists, the moderators of all the “debates” are open, sneering leftists… the only way the words “budget,” “security,” and “economy” will ever be uttered from August until November is in the following sentence: “Don’t you agree that the budget, the economy, and national security will all be improved by gay marriage?”

The only thing I can’t decide is, will this be a net negative or positive for the GOP? Romney would also get hammered on gay marriage, of course, but since the media’s tiny pea brains can only handle one slur at a time, their go-to hatchet job on Romney will be his religion…. and I’m not sure everyone has an opinion on Mormonism, or even knows much about it. Is “he’s a weird, creepy cultist” a more effective slam than “he’s a snake-handling fundamentalist bigot”? Guess we’ll find out as it draws closer to convention time.

[n.b. it should go without saying that those are not my personal opinions of Mormons and/or evangelical Christians. However, I unreservedly stand by any slur, explicit or implied, on the gravity-distorting stupidity of the Republican party. Mitch Daniels wanted to call a “truce” on social issues…. and he was promptly run out of the party. In reality, he was the only sane man in a room full of gibbering idiots. It’s real simple: every single f*cking journalist on the face of the g*dd*mn earth is a frothing-at-the-mouth liberal. There is nothing, literally NOTHING, any Republican can say on any social issue that won’t get him crucified by every media outlet this side of Talon News. So just shut. the hell. up. about social issues, conservatives! Any and all questions that aren’t “how are we going to solve the budget crunch” should be answered with a chart showing unemployment rates and GDP growth. “Refer to the chart, FYNQ,” should be the default response from every Republican candidate for every office from President to dog catcher].
- Severian | 02/17/2012 @ 14:38
Maybe you’re on to something, Sev. I don’t know.

What I do know is that the biggest issue right now in the minds of most voters isn’t terrorism, not global warming, not anything that would qualify as a “social issue.” Previous elections have been about defense, education, health care, or whatever the media thinks is going to sell more papers or get more people watching their news outlets.

I consider myself a social con as well as a fiscal one…but you’re right. The primary issue right now is “jobs and the economy,” and closely tied to that…the companion issues of spending and deficits, followed by energy. (The latter is concerned, of course, with gas prices and where our oil comes from…as well as all this “green” crap the president keeps talking about.) Our candidates need to keep hammering on fiscal issues and leave the social ones for another day…and this is coming from someone who is utterly sick and tired of all the activism and legal crusades around the issue of gay marriage.

I really have no idea why getting full-blown gay marriage is so important to people who aren’t even homosexual, but it sure seems to be.
- cylarz | 02/21/2012 @ 18:51

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