{"id":20041,"date":"2011-05-17T05:41:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T11:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20041"},"modified":"2011-09-01T07:36:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:36:28","slug":"the-duck-sounds-like-a-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20041","title":{"rendered":"The Duck Sounds Like A Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tony Jones, writing at MinnPost,<\/em>notes that\u00a0M the “Marriage Amendment” is, as he says, a “ploy”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Dear State Senator Geoff Michel and Representative Pat Mazorol,<\/p>\n

Your party\u2019s move to put to a statewide vote a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as between a man and a woman is unnecessary (we already have a state law on the books that defines marriage as such).\u00a0 It is also a political ploy, attempting to fire up the conservative base, bringing them to the polls in hopes of defeating Barack Obama.\u00a0 I hope it backfires on you (and, if a recent poll is correct, it will).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The “recent poll” is just a Strib <\/em>Minnesota Poll. \u00a0I’d normally say no more – Minnesota Polls are unfiltered DFL propaganda at worst, printed mulch at best. \u00a0Actual reputable polls disagree<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What this amendment campaign will do is flood our state with outside money from groups that thrive on an embittered and polarized electorate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And I just looooove <\/em>the way the DFLers are crying about that now. \u00a0The DFL spent the past two generations building an outside money machine; they’ve politicized our public employees, our teachers, our higher education system, turning all of them not only into DFL contributors, but spigots for outside money. \u00a0“Outside money” is a huge reason we have a Governor Dayton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But, most tragically, it will send a message to my friends (and your constituents) like Rachel, that she is not a valued citizen of our state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And here we get out of “obvious” and into “cynical”.<\/p>\n

As I’ve noted, Gay Marriage isn’t a huge issue to me, in terms of policy – but it’s also not a government issue. \u00a0 So when people like “Rachel” write…<\/p>\n

In more than 515 ways (and more than twice that federally) our marriage is inferior to that of my opposite gender counterparts.I am not asking anyone to bless what Karen and I have. God has, and will continue to do that. What I am asking is for our marriage to not be constitutionally banned. I am asking that the state in which I live and love and have my being to not put my right to ever be married to Karen to a vote.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So rather than change those “515 ways” “Rachel’s” “marriage” is “inferior”, we should impose her version of marriage \u00a0– which she believes is recognized by God, and I won’t argue, but it certainly isn’t recognized by any major religion, or denomination, or anything, anywhere in the world – on all the rest of us?<\/p>\n

The proposed amendment protects absolutely no one. It does not create jobs or attract visitors and would be Minnesotans to our state.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Either do most of our laws.<\/p>\n

Back to Jones, who closes with a strawman that I’m getting tired of:<\/p>\n

Read her whole post and answer me this: How is Rachel\u2019s marriage a threat to yours, or to our state?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s not.<\/p>\n

Stop asking.<\/p>\n

Her “marriage” is of no consequence to me – I wish them well, personally. \u00a0It’s all the more reason to get government out of the business of defining marriage; let people sign contracts (or not) and get them blessed (or not) by any religion they want (or not).<\/p>\n

That may or may not be what Tony Jones wants. \u00a0It’s certainly not what Big Gay or Big Progressive wants. \u00a0It’s not about gays’ ability to marry; it’s about solidifying “progressive” control of society and all its institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tony Jones, writing at MinnPost,notes that\u00a0M the “Marriage Amendment” is, as he says, a “ploy”: Dear State Senator Geoff Michel and Representative Pat Mazorol, Your party\u2019s move to put to a statewide vote a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as between a man and a woman is unnecessary (we already have a state law on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-law","category-governor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20041","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=20041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22131,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20041\/revisions\/22131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}