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Okay. I would like to introduce the ghost, the big swinging dick ghost, of Paul Weyrich to the gormless and clueless liberal who thought bringing same sex marriage to a vote in all 50 states was a good idea. Weyrich arguably is the genius who strategized the 50-year Republican reign predicted by LBJ upon the passage of the Voting Rights Act, and who died, in 2008, a double amputee, but still a genius and, on account of Republican deregulation, the main architect of what may be an apocalyptic financial implosion, apparently of the Lee Atwater curse.
It was Weyrich, along with Terry Dolan and direct mail genius Richard Viguerie who invented single-issue voters. Abortion as a political issue, which it really isn't, was invented by these three to get the wang nuts to the polls in elections where low voter turnout was so evenly divided among the contenders that no margin of victory was assured. Unless a tiny band of wang nuts were so inflamed by one hot-button issue that they went and registered to vote and drove each other to the polls in such marginal numbers as to give conservative candidates the razor thin margins they needed to win elections. This has been happening for 30 years.
So was it a mole for the religious right who decided that voters in each state would be happy to condone same sex marriage? Someone who knew that a single issue vote in the culture wars actually mobilizes the conservative vote and decided to sabotage the ongoing march of civil rights by bogarting Weyrich's sublimely intelligent strategery for gay people?
I know. The whole world is the Castro. Something like that could never happen here.
And, it occurred to me, reading the leadup piece to the Supreme Court args, that the real fear of the religious right is that marriage will be revealed as an economic, not to say patriarchy-protecting, institution. Which, as everybody since that Marxist virago Jane Austen was permitted to indite her seditious screeds knows, is a truth universally to be unacknowledged.
I suspect David Geffen. Hollywood isn't quite swift enough to deal with this.
It was Weyrich, along with Terry Dolan and direct mail genius Richard Viguerie who invented single-issue voters. Abortion as a political issue, which it really isn't, was invented by these three to get the wang nuts to the polls in elections where low voter turnout was so evenly divided among the contenders that no margin of victory was assured. Unless a tiny band of wang nuts were so inflamed by one hot-button issue that they went and registered to vote and drove each other to the polls in such marginal numbers as to give conservative candidates the razor thin margins they needed to win elections. This has been happening for 30 years.
So was it a mole for the religious right who decided that voters in each state would be happy to condone same sex marriage? Someone who knew that a single issue vote in the culture wars actually mobilizes the conservative vote and decided to sabotage the ongoing march of civil rights by bogarting Weyrich's sublimely intelligent strategery for gay people?
I know. The whole world is the Castro. Something like that could never happen here.
And, it occurred to me, reading the leadup piece to the Supreme Court args, that the real fear of the religious right is that marriage will be revealed as an economic, not to say patriarchy-protecting, institution. Which, as everybody since that Marxist virago Jane Austen was permitted to indite her seditious screeds knows, is a truth universally to be unacknowledged.
I suspect David Geffen. Hollywood isn't quite swift enough to deal with this.
