Anyway, I'm trying to internalize the puppy-raping thing you brought up earlier. I'm trying to believe that's a valid analogy and wrap my mind around ways to discuss it. The thing is...
From my insular view from the upper left corner of Blue-land (you were damn right about the three liberals in a coffeeshop in the U-dist), I don't really believe most people had that strong of an opinion about gay marriage before the hard-nose neocons chose to MAKE it into an issue. They knew it would be bacon if they could just manipulate already-religious people, people who already chose to believe and be led, and play on their fears and REAL values. Okay, I didn't interview anyone in Ohio, but in the last election it was barely heard of. How do we combat something that plays off of religious people's deep-seated values and tells them they are Horrible Disgusting Sinners if they accept it as a human rights issue?
I don't know. I don't know how to really reach people who may be good, even thinking, at heart, but who are willing to make civil questions into reflections on "salvation". Do us liberals have to go into the clergy, now? Because that seems to be the only voice that will reach them. Declaring it a civil rights issue certainly didn't work this year.
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2008, you mean, right?
Anyway, I'm trying to internalize the puppy-raping thing you brought up earlier. I'm trying to believe that's a valid analogy and wrap my mind around ways to discuss it. The thing is...
From my insular view from the upper left corner of Blue-land (you were damn right about the three liberals in a coffeeshop in the U-dist), I don't really believe most people had that strong of an opinion about gay marriage before the hard-nose neocons chose to MAKE it into an issue. They knew it would be bacon if they could just manipulate already-religious people, people who already chose to believe and be led, and play on their fears and REAL values. Okay, I didn't interview anyone in Ohio, but in the last election it was barely heard of. How do we combat something that plays off of religious people's deep-seated values and tells them they are Horrible Disgusting Sinners if they accept it as a human rights issue?
I don't know. I don't know how to really reach people who may be good, even thinking, at heart, but who are willing to make civil questions into reflections on "salvation". Do us liberals have to go into the clergy, now? Because that seems to be the only voice that will reach them. Declaring it a civil rights issue certainly didn't work this year.