{"id":1079,"date":"2007-07-20T16:59:23","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T21:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2007-07-20T16:59:23","modified_gmt":"2007-07-20T21:59:23","slug":"perfection-is-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1079","title":{"rendered":"Perfection Is The Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Any state legislator that has ever bounced a check should be disqualified from budget debates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Any solon that has ever gotten a speeding ticket should be disqualified from speaking about crime.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Any elected official that has gotten less than a “C” in a class, ever, should be barred from debate on education.<\/p>\n

Absurd, right?<\/p>\n

Not if you’re a kept leftyblogger, apparently.<\/p>\n

Let’s back up a bit.<\/p>\n

Gay marriage, to me, is not the most <\/em>important issue on the public plate right now.<\/p>\n

Oh, make no mistake – I think “marriage” should be a purely religious institution, and that the state’s only interest in a perfect world would be that of enforcing a civil contract.\u00a0 Hence, I think that civil unions, as a contractual entity, should be legal.\u00a0 For that matter, I think that any church or religious body that can theologically justify “marriage” between people of the same sex should be able to do it (although suffice to say that I’ll have an interesting time debating that <\/em>bit of instatheology).<\/p>\n

I believe this because, while I think there’s a legitimate case to be made for same-sex civil unions, there is none I can see\u00a0for gay marriage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But since I, myself, am divorced, apparently according to kept leftyblogger Andy Birkey<\/a>, I should just shut up and let everyone who’s never held out an opinion about what marriage should be about.<\/p>\n

In this piece, Birkey takes the crimes, found and alleged, of three <\/em>Republican legislators (two in Minnesota, one national)…<\/p>\n

…and says:<\/p>\n

These “pro-family” failures demonstrate that we should be suspicious when politicians try to legislate rigid traditional standards on people’s private romantic lives, because chances are, they won’t be able to live up to the expectations they set for the rest of us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Get that?<\/p>\n

Out of millions <\/em>of Republicans, and dozens of GOP legislators in this state, the failures of two people <\/em>invalidate the entire case against same sex marriage<\/em>?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wow.<\/p>\n

Since the Democrat majority leader got pulled over for Drunk Driving after the last session, the DFL should be ignored on public safety issues?<\/p>\n

So since a number of prominent DFLers supported Kathleen Soliah, we should ignore the DFL on terrorism and crime issues?<\/p>\n

Because of William Jefferson, Democrats should shut up about corruption?<\/p>\n

Because Jeff Fecke has never admitted to cribbing AP quotes, we should ignore everything the Minnesota Monitor says?<\/p>\n

(That last may be a bad example).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Any state legislator that has ever bounced a check should be disqualified from budget debates.\u00a0 Any solon that has ever gotten a speeding ticket should be disqualified from speaking about crime.\u00a0 Any elected official that has gotten less than a “C” in a class, ever, should be barred from debate on education. Absurd, right? Not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}