tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272148722806135290.post6626836407362173646..comments2023-07-04T05:58:27.534-07:00Comments on Blank Space: Love & MarriageMichael Hackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03203841174846879752noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272148722806135290.post-81813649862279228582004-07-09T12:58:00.000-07:002004-07-09T12:58:00.000-07:00I hope the FMA will go the same way as the Flag de...I hope the FMA will go the same way as the Flag desecration amendment during the first Bush administration; i.e., die away as a narrow, fringe concept the vast majority of people can't really get too worked up over.<br><br>Also, I think most Americans see through the rhetoric of such draconian assaults on freedom as wedge issues--the aim being not a resolution of issues themselves (although that would be fine by the R-W, too), but as methods to cast aspersions on the other side of the aisle. <br><br>The Republicans have historically been very good at this ever since Lee Atwater, who really fathered pit bull politics in this country. His second-generation clone is Karl Rove, as we all know. The danger with the Democrats, is that they cave in. As Michael Moore so aptly states in F-9/11, "the Democrats 'accept'; even when they win, they lose." Denial, it appears, gets more votes.<br>hackermcnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4272148722806135290.post-22332574514506703752004-07-09T11:45:00.000-07:002004-07-09T11:45:00.000-07:00Here I am, about to make a comment or two which wi...Here I am, about to make a comment or two which will forever preclude me from being a Republican candidate for anything.<br><br>And perhaps for holding office in my church denomination. Too bad I'm president of my congregation already. (Come on, impeach me!)<br><br>Gay marriage is an inevitability. There are two paths to it:<br><br>1) FMA fails to pass. The current reactionary bent of the ruling party wanes as their power does, and life progresses apace. Moderation and tolerance and basic American decency just let it happen.<br><br>2) FMA passes. The Radical Right celebrates, finally causing the Sleeping Majority to rise up and say "enough." And, like the Reactionary Prohibition Amendment, FMA gets repealed. Not before it gets us into even more trouble by trampling on the rights of, for example, unmarried heterosexual couples. But it would be repealed.<br><br>The point here is that the principles on which our nation was founded will require that the minority be protected. These principles are ingrained in Americans from such a young age that it's impossible to imagine FMA passing, let alone surviving.<br><br>Which is, by the way, why the U.S.A. is so great. While there are some nations in the world which are more "liberal" the vast majority of the population of the Earth does not live in them. China? India? Russia? Any Arab country? Get real.stwill61noreply@blogger.com