Lori Sturdevant demands that we “Just say no to wedge politics” in a piece called, conveniently, “Just say no to wedge politics…”
As six middle-aged, white male Republican legislators — all married in the eyes of Minnesota law — left the briefing room Tuesday after announcing their push for a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, they couldn’t avoid passing DFL Sen. Scott Dibble on his way inside.
…bv invoking a really, really stupid wedge.
(Dibble is, by the way, middle-aged and very, very white. He happens to be gay).
How does one look a colleague in the eye or speak a civil greeting, right after announcing an intention to make that colleague’s marriage forever illegitimate?
I craned my neck to see what expressions passed between them. Darn. Too far from the door to get a good look.
“They nodded,” Dibble, a three-termer from Minneapolis and currently the Senate’s only openly gay member, reported afterward. “One or two might have said ‘Hi.’ … That’s what makes it all the more odd that they are willing to effectively dehumanize me.”
We’ll come back to this in another post later today.
But hey, Lori – good job avoiding those wedges.
Let’s be clear on this – the only reason the DFL (as opposed to gay activists, like Dibble) care about this is that when the vote comes for the amendment, the DFL is going to lose. Maybe lose big. As I pointed out during the election, there’s polling out there that suggests that Minnesotans strongly oppose changing the traditional definition of marriage.
If it were otherwise – if there had been any indication that Minnesotans craved single-sex marriage – the DFL would have introduced an amendment legalizing it in 2007, when they took complete control of the legislature, or in 2009, when their control became utterly stifling. Even had Pawlenty vetoed it, they’d have gotten GOP votes on the issue made public, and hammered them on it in the ’08 and ’10 elections. If there were a majority of Minnesotans who favored gay marriage.
But there is not.
And so the DFL is desperate to avoid being forced to put votes on the line on this issue. Because they know that, along with the Cornish “Stand Your Ground” Bill and Voter ID, most Minnesotans, especially outstate, Gay Marriage is a loser for them – and since the DFL’s only hope is to expand outstate (they can hardly control the Twin Cities and Duluth and the Arrowhead more thoroughly than they do), this is not part of the plan.
More on Gay Marriage itself later today.
“Dehumanizing” him. What a drama queen.
After the Census data was released, the DFL’s control of the Twin Cities will be weaker. People are leaving Rep. Ellison’s & Rep. McCollum’s districts like they were selling toxic waste. The Iron Range is shrinking, too.
In the end, the DFL will be forced to moderate its positions or become politically irrelevant.
Why does Lori hate Catholics so much?
Gender, race and age…the trifecta! Mmmmm…Lori’s H8 is so smooth and creamy, I want to butter my toast with it.
Poor, Dribble. Lucky for him he can go home and have his house-boy restore his humanity.
Nothing says human dignity like fresh crap stains on the sheets!
So working to keep marriage as it is presently recognized is exploiting a wedge issue, while working to impose it on an unwilling majority is not? Somebody needs a course in reasoning.
Terry, Terry, Terry. Reasoning is not a strong suit in liberal, “progressive” thinking.
I admit, I do find the simultaneous “Stay The Hell Out Of My Bedroom!” and “Get In This Bedroom And Approve!” messages a bit confusing. Since they seem to want it both ways, shouldn’t they be pushing for bi-marriage?
In the very same section where Lori Sturdevant – “demands that we ‘Just say no to wedge politics’ in a piece called, conveniently, “Just say no to wedge politics…” is Nancy Barnes extolling the Strib’s ‘Crack’ accountability journalism task force. I’m sure they will be so busy “Comforting the Afflicted and Afflicting the Comfortable” they wont have any time available to report on the hate politics of the Gay Marriage Rights crowd.
If your group can get a major national law firm, one that has represented terrorists and death row murderers, to shirk its duty and walk away from a client over a controversial issue (http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/04/028934.php), believe me, you are one of the comfortable.
Seflores;
Yup! I thought the same think about Nancy Barnes little spew. Too bad she said the same thing, minus the names, two years ago when the Red Star took its’ first dive and did nothing then.
And Pat Doyle covering the capitol beat? Perfect place for a libturd shill!
Whether you are homo or hetro, we all have the same rights.