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Originally posted by Mike AI@Mar 7 2004, 11:45 PM
Mike, in case you are missing it, the "threat" (interesting choice of words - who, exactly, is "threatened"?) of gay marriage IS raising all kinds of hell. So much so, in fact, that the President of the United States deemed it necessary to use his "bully pulpit" to endorse a Constitutional Ammendment to ban it.
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Don't change the subject.... Give me a list of policy changes, or other concrete evidence of religous right being more powerful then they were in 80s!
You can't!!
Not even the evil Ashcroft has done anything to use his posistion to help the regligous right![/quote]
I really don't think I was changing the subject, Mikey. You are one of the bobbleheads who usually drops into the "liberalactivistjudges" chant when the subject of gay marriage comes up. Now you are pointing to it as "evidence" that the religious right has no power, when the President of the U.S. is pandering to their clamour for a Constitutional Ammendment forbidding it, and they (the Religious Right) are promising to make it one of the hot-button issues in the upcoming campaign.
I've already mentioned a couple (faith-based initiatives, so-called "marriage emphasis" programs coming out of HHR, family planning (and possibly anti-HIV) policy basically in the hands of the Catholic Church). Now, I realize that most of the family planning money and anti-HIV funds would end up going out as foreign aid to poor people, so they are not thought worthy of any consideration, at least according to some - but it's gonna kill a bunch of folks that we allegedly are trying to help.
The evidence is there; you chose to interpret it a different way than I do. I think you are ignoring the obvious, and you think I'm a fearmonger, apparenlty, because we see things differently.
Still don't know what my age has to do with this, or why you are threatened by gay marriage. Hmmmm ....