http://www.citypages.com/bestof2005/citygritty/bestof2623.asp

That said, the effort to marginalize gays for political gain in this instance came from Republicans – and Karl Rove was a big part of this. I’ve emailed you a source who verified to me that Rove would encourage people to push this issue during the 2004 campaign.

There was clearly a split among the Bush people on this – Maria Cino and Andrew Card and Dick Cheney would have been counselling against this – and Cheney publicly stated he differed with the President on this issue.

They don’t need any help from us. They’re doing just fine on their own.

Will – I think you are being a tad naive.

Let’s see… you vote for a party that doesnt support gay marriage, signed DOMA into law, instigated dont ask dont tell, and passed anti sodomy laws and tells you they support you.

The two presidential candidates have identical positions on gay marriage and you call one a homophobe and the other pro-gay, because he assures you he is….

You associate yourself with a party that “tolerates” you as long as you agree with them, and visciously attacks you based on your sexuality if you dont

and you think a position that is supported by an overwhelming number of Americans, including nearly a majority of Democrats, and think it takes an evil mastermind to get it on the ballot when people are trying to force gay marriage through the courts….

And you call me naive? perhaps you ought to look the word up.

YAY!! POWERLINE recognized you!! You. Are. Fabulous!! Go back to bashing gay people and see who else links to you!

we’re not bashing gay people, we’re bashing idiocy. That so much idiocy comes from people who also happen to be gay is unfortunate, but surely you wouldnt have us discriminate based on sexual orientation, would you?

So that means, using Gilda’s illogic, that Rove was working for John F.You Kerry?

Hang in there GPW…at least one person was paying attention!!!

Or am I alone on this one…

In my football playing days, if we had a strategy that worked, we yuked about it afterwards.
Just like Dobson and the rest of those dingbats bragging about how important gay marriage was to putting Bush back in the white house.
It was a strategy discussed and formulated in those conference calls, that did not have to work everywhere; it just had to bring out the fear of Sodom and Gomorrah

Do I understand that if there is an honest disagreement among citizens, gay or straight, as to what constitutes marriage that one side is “right” and the other side is “prejudiced”?

For the sake of common sense let us debate the core issue: What is the compelling reason for the state to regulate marriage? Methinks, most libs don’t want to have that discussion.

For example, there have been many pro gay marriage/domestic partnership laws on the ballots in recent elections, there have been many anti-smoking initiatives on the ballots…and many Democrat politicians believe in these causes and probably met with people in the states who were also supportive of them, but that doesnt mean it was the Democrat politicians who got the initiatives on the ballots.

Do try to use your brain, God gave it to you for a reason.

Hmmmm…..

Good one. You really nailed it