I doubt that Wingers are ever swayed by reason, but after all that talk about Gay's ruining their families; why isn't congress and the Preznit protecting their constituents?
From the Atlanta Journal Constitution:
A cynical person might look at that evidence and suggest that maybe the gay-marriage controversy was never real in the first place. Maybe it was just a product, like soap or toilet paper, that was manufactured by politicians and then sold by certain media outlets and interest groups. Maybe those politicians never had any intention of trying to pass such an amendment and were merely playing their supporters for fools.
And maybe, just maybe, it wasn't just politicians who were playing that cynical game.
This week, when I visited Dobson's Focus on the Family Web site, I found not a single mention of gay marriage on its home page. I clicked on the four Web pages listed under "Public Policy" and still no mention of an issue that a year earlier had dominated the organization's time and energy.
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[updated for grammar nazi's...I mean "nazis."]
I even read through Dobson's 2005 monthly newsletters; he has made no mention of the federal gay marriage amendment since January.
Rest assured, though, a new dire threat has arisen to take its place. In Congress, on Fox News and yes, on the Web site of Focus on the Family, all are now atwitter about the ongoing war against Christmas, part of the nefarious liberal plot to eventually ban Christianity altogether.
Basically, what you're seeing is a retail operation, and gay marriage was last year's inventory. It has been rotated off the shelves, at least for now, to make way for a holiday-themed product in exactly the same way that Home Depot removes inventory from its garden section to make space for Christmas trees.
Us reasonable people have already figured out that this is the "Crisis Presidency." When they need votes, or want to change a policy, there is a sudden CRISIS. Saddam's supposed threat, gay marriage, social security, uhhh...steroids in baseball???!
Us reasonable people might also notice that they ignore the known threats, N. Korea, an out of control deficit, greenhouse gasses, toxins at ground zero, anything to do with the needs of our soldiers, capturing Bin Laden, oh...the total destruction of New Orleans and beyond.
Barring Wingers becoming reasonable, is it time that we start reminding them that all they get from their Gov't is empty promises. Or, is that a dangerous path? Might they actually call our bluff and put those things like gay marriage amendments and Social Security back on the table?