So the other day on Twitter, I took the liberty of congratulating Lynn Cheney for “marrying” her partner. \u00a0I took the liberty of pointing out that Cheney, lesbian though she is, has a rare and glorious ability to shred through lefty chanting points.<\/p>\n
A couple of \u00a0liberals on Twitter, smelling rhetorical trap, tried to turn that into an endorsement of gay marriage and\/or a position on the Marriage Amendment this fall.<\/p>\n
Naturally, I’m not falling for any of that. \u00a0The fact is, I’m personally, deeply ambivalent about gay marriage. \u00a0And about the Marriage Amendment that will be addressing the issue in Minnesota this fall. \u00a0And about marriage, regardless of the genders of the participants, for that matter. \u00a0 One of the liberals accused me of “moving the goalposts”, as liberals always do when one introduces logical or moral nuance into an argument (remember – they’re the smart ones, <\/em>and the only ones allowed to have nuance or observe gray area in their world views).<\/p>\n But notwithstanding the lefties’ attempt to back me into a rhetorical box of their making, which I brushed aside with ease and style (as always), it did start me thinking; it’s getting toward November. \u00a0I mean, it’s four months away.<\/p>\n And I’m still undecided about the Marriage Amendment.<\/p>\n As I’ve written in the past, the Marriage Amendment is…<\/p>\n Because on the one hand, I believe government should stay out of peoples’ personal lives.<\/p>\n On the other, I believe “Marriage” is mostly a religious institution.<\/p>\n On the third hand, I find most of the arguments for <\/em>gay marriage just as illogical as some of its proponents find “because Jesus said so”. \u00a0A quick sample, off the top of my head:<\/p>\n “Support Gay Marriage or we’ll thow things at you”<\/strong>: \u00a0This video clips is making the rounds; a young Marriage Amendment opponent tossing glitter at Amendment supporters at a demonstration outside General Mills:\n
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