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Re: At last, some family-values legislation I can really get behind!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:17:43 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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Hagen equates being a republican to being gay.
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**snip**
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I’m sure the tolerant Mr. Hagen will have no problem with polygamist
families adopting children as well. How about centenarians? What bigotry,
discriminating against the elderly! Disgusting!
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DaveE’s comments made me
realize a few other weaknesses in this argument.
First, you’re apparently equating homosexuality with being a centenarian or a
polygamist, at least to the extent that you think that Hagen is equating
homosexuality and republicanism. Are you in fact positing that equivalence? On
what grounds?
Second, no one is expressly proposing legislation to bar centenarians from
adoption, so the analogy is mute. I’m not sure about polygamists--probably
somebody somewhere has sponsored such legislation, but I just don’t know. In
any case, you’re ordering Hagen to be an advocate for whatever group you decide,
and that’s not up to you. Or me, for that matter; it’s up to Hagen, his
principles, and his constituents.
Dave!
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