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Re: Yet another push for thoughtful legislation from Tennessee
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:48:40 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Parsons wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> (snip worthy summation)
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> > This all seems so blindingly obvious to me, I confess I find the whole gay
> > marriage debate rather confusing.
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> Agreed. Its validity seems to flow rather directly and consequentially from
> some deeply enshrined and rather important principles concerning the fundamental
> rights of human beings.
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> > What is there to debate?
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> As I understand it, the debate is about whether the American President can
> actually get himself re-elected by playing to shallow thinking conservatives,
> regardless of the terrible discontinuity between his position and the underlying
> principles he purports to uphold.
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> I think the affirmative team is winning.
Sadly, (and from the perspective of) for the future of the republic, I'm not
sure that's really worth being debated either, as it appears to be a settled
question that he can make mileage from this issue and a mostly irrelevant
question (except for, with respect to loss of freedom, matters of timing and
degree) whether he wins or Kerry does.
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