{"id":529,"date":"2007-01-12T21:04:53","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T02:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/529"},"modified":"2007-01-12T21:27:33","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T02:27:33","slug":"naive-at-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/529","title":{"rendered":"Naive At Best"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sides call for civility in gay marriage debate<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Arline Isaacson of the Massachusetts Gay & Lesbian Political Caucus, said she believes political opponents such as Mineau are acting in good faith. But she said any campaign against gay marriage inevitably draws virulently anti-gay activists from out of state who will say hateful and destructive things. Groups such as Mineau’s have to take responsibility for that, she said.<\/p>\n

"It’s naive at best to think it won’t happen," Isaacson said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Are you nuts?  Those people are about as much good faith as a used car dealer selling models pulled from last year’s flood.  This guy has it Exactly right:<\/p>\n

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Tom Lang of Know Thy Neighbor.org<\/a>, a sponsor of the vigil, said he’s skeptical of calls for civility in the debate because gay marriage opponents aren’t honest about the real reason they oppose gay marriage: "They don’t like gay people."<\/p>\n

"The dialogue can’t exist unless they’re honest and they come clean about how they really feel about gay people," he said. "We’d like them to just admit it."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But of course…they won’t.<\/p>\n

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Mineau said his group isn’t against gay people, but rather for promoting the man-woman model of marriage as the best way for society to raise children.<\/p>\n

"That’s what we should all be esteeming for," he said. "We shouldn’t try to deconstruct it."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Well let’s deconstruct you instead asshole.  The man-woman model of marriage is the best, because homosexual relationships are inferior to heterosexual ones.  We should all be esteeming for it because homosexuality is a choice and a bad one at that since it’s inferior to heterosexuality.  And since the man-woman model is the best and a homosexual one inferior, that means that homosexual households damage the children in them.  And since homosexuality is a choice that means that gay people are deliberately choosing to do damage to children.   That is what you managed to say in just two short sentences.  But without actually saying it outright, of course.  And you’re not against gay people. <\/p>\n

Good faith.  Good faith.  Any more of this good faith and the churches up there might as well start selling flood cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sides call for civility in gay marriage debate Arline Isaacson of the Massachusetts Gay & Lesbian Political Caucus, said she believes political opponents such as Mineau are acting in good faith. But she said any campaign against gay marriage inevitably draws virulently anti-gay activists from out of state who will say hateful and destructive things. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16,20,6,12],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-marriage","tag-the-american-gutter","tag-the-right-wing-mindset","tag-the-struggle-for-our-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}