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Santorum's napkin argument against gay marriage

GelzoGelzo
edited 2011-08-29 15:24:54 in Politics
Pony Sleuth
Did anyone tell him that that isn't how language works? His theological, biological, and historical knowledge seems pretty suspect here, too. http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid823619053?bctid=1099667149001

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  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    edited 2011-08-29 15:38:57
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    Is it bad that the first thing I thought of was "If you need a napkin for your santorum, you're doing it wrong"?

    Also, lol at the guy at the Coke machine.
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    I missed that, what was he doing?
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    Just some guy refilling his Coke in the background. I found it amusing because it shows that even the people who show up to his political rallies (in what seems to be an Arby's) don't give two santorums about him.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Of course they don't, he's just one santorum.
  • Wicked223Wicked223
    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
    Did anyone tell him that that isn't how language works?


    I doubt anyone in the audience actually knew about linguistic drift, or whatever we're talking about.

    His theological, biological, and historical knowledge seems pretty suspect here, too.


    see above.
  • The_EdgeThe_Edge
    Mr. The Edge goes to Washington
    The Derp leading the Derp.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    His argument is why I've long advocated that the government stop calling it marriage, call all this stuff "civil unions", and left communities and religious groups and private citizens to declare things marriages.
  • GelzoGelzo
    edited 2011-08-30 00:13:33
    Pony Sleuth
    Well there's a trade-off there. It's easier to get things like certain privileges for gay couples passed if conservatives get to feel good about it not being "marriage," but that gives them all sorts of wiggle room for denying rights to civil unions. Would a straight couple ever choose to be in a civil union as opposed to marriage? I doubt it. It wouldn't be in their best interests.

    The best case scenario is gay marriage being treated exactly the same in the eyes of the law as straight marriage, anything else is unjust and until we get there there isn't any reason to be satisfied.

    I suppose in the meantime that might work out for the better, but I really don't think accepting compromises like that gets us much closer to the long term goal of equality.

    EDIT- Oh, looks like you meant that straight marriages should just be termed civil unions as well. Well, I guess that could work, but it'd still be a little silly and I'm not sure it would be any more popular.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    It would be a little silly, but it would get the point across about how silly all this crap is, about a mere name.
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    I don't think that's how it would turn out. There's some patently ridiculous stuff that goes on in government that doesn't get dealt with.
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