{"id":32228,"date":"2012-12-04T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32228"},"modified":"2012-12-03T14:17:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T20:17:01","slug":"its-time-to-legalize-gay-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32228","title":{"rendered":"It’s Time To Start Legalizing Gay Marriage!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I noticed that even some of the brighter leftybloggers are figuring out – or drifting in that direction – that the DFL majority in the Legislature isn’t going to knock itself out to legalize gay marriage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But there’s another angle to this.<\/p>\n

The DFL (or, more accurately, the various non-profits that control the DFL’s entire messaging effort) created an unprecedented turnout\u00a0against\u00a0<\/em>the Marriage Amendment.<\/p>\n

The rhetoric was crude, zoomed in on the lowest common informational denominator; “Marriage is about Love!” \u00a0 “Who are we to get in the way of Love between two people?!” \u00a0“Say no to hate!”<\/p>\n

If you are a gay MInnesotan, who no doubt turned out in excess of 100% against the Amendment and for the DFL last month?<\/p>\n

If you are one of the mass of Minnesotans who was inveigled into feeling warm fuzzy feelings about same-sex marriage by the parade of celebrities, washed-up ex-Republicans and model TV families?<\/p>\n

If you’re one of those libertarians who figured “what can it hurt?” \u00a0Who believed that \u00a0the issue was truly about “no hate!”, and who didn’t wanted to be called a “bigot?”<\/p>\n

Here’s the deal: \u00a0if the DFL doesn’t, on the first day of the session, put forth a repeal of Minnesota’s anti-gay-marriage law, and ram it through committee and to the Governor’s desk like Jared Allen chasing down a quarterback, then\u00a0you were all played for suckers<\/strong>.<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em>You and your vote were nothing more than pawns in the DFL’s political power grab. \u00a0And their inaction will mean that the DFL has no more use for you that for a used condom; you’ll get about the same treatment.<\/p>\n

And if you are a DFLer – say, a DFL blogger or tweep – who doesn’t push,\u00a0relentlessly,\u00a0<\/em>for the DFL to get the anti-gay marriage legislation repealed, and a gay marriage law enacted immedately<\/em>, then you are not only aiding and abetting the DFL’s hypocrisy, but you are hypocrites yourselves.<\/p>\n

So what’s it gonna be?<\/p>\n

If you’re not complete hypocrites, you should have this done by March.<\/p>\n

Of course the DFL is hypocritical on the isssue.<\/p>\n

They had complete control of the Legislature in 2008-2010, and didn’t even try. \u00a0And whinging about “not wasting time, we know it’ll be vetoed” was a cop-out; the GOP passed bills they knew were going to be vetoed,\u00a0to show the people where they stood on tough issues<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So – will the DFL follow through on this issue? \u00a0Do they have the electoral\u00a0cojones<\/em>?<\/p>\n

It’s for love, after all. \u00a0Don’t be bigots!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I noticed that even some of the brighter leftybloggers are figuring out – or drifting in that direction – that the DFL majority in the Legislature isn’t going to knock itself out to legalize gay marriage. But there’s another angle to this. The DFL (or, more accurately, the various non-profits that control the DFL’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27],"tags":[196],"class_list":["post-32228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-men-and-women","tag-marriage-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32228","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=32228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32231,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32228\/revisions\/32231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}