Further proof that my “Logic For Leftybloggers” series – especially the piece two weeks ago<\/a> on the Tu Quoque Ad Hominem –<\/em> is long, looong, lo-o-o-o-ong overdue comes in\u00a0a piece yesterday at the Minnesota Birkeydependent<\/em><\/a> where Andy Birkey, taking a rare break from covering Bradlee Dean, writes:<\/p>\n In testimony before Minnesota Senate and House committees last week, religious leaders and representatives from religious right organizations cited single-parent families and a skyrocketing divorce rate as reasons to protect marriage from being redefined to include same-sex couples by \u201cactivist judges\u201d and \u201chandfuls of legislators.\u201d And GOP members rebuffed efforts by DFLers to include a ban on divorces in a proposed ban on gay marriage. However, a number of the legislators who say they want to protect marriage appear to have been divorced.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Right. \u00a0But in fairness, a number of DFLers aren’t really gay,aren’t on welfare, and haven’t had abortions <\/em>either.<\/p>\n Note to DFLers and the writers <\/span>writer at the MinnBirk<\/em>: the fact that someone making an argument has not always been utterly consistent with their side of the argument is not evidence against the argument.<\/p>\n In a sense, we should be happy that this is the best George Soros can get for his money.<\/p>\n On the other hand, to 43% of our population, this is what passes for an argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Further proof that my “Logic For Leftybloggers” series – especially the piece two weeks ago on the Tu Quoque Ad Hominem – is long, looong, lo-o-o-o-ong overdue comes in\u00a0a piece yesterday at the Minnesota Birkeydependent where Andy Birkey, taking a rare break from covering Bradlee Dean, writes: In testimony before Minnesota Senate and House committees […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,26,29,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-faiths-and-their-followers","category-family-law","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20087","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=20087"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20092,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20087\/revisions\/20092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}