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02/10/2012
WA 'values' guy questions our ability to reason; I see his queries and raise him the 'God Made Adam & Eve, not Adam & Steve' sign I saw at his recent rally
He uses this graphic:
He uses this headline:
The Death of Reason
And he uses lines like following:
"…[A] body of legislators who have, presumably, told their own children that "I want it"is not a reason, have been completely bamboozled by this mutiny of emotion. While we should be indignant, there might be room for a bit of sympathy as well since many of us have also done irrational things we later regretted in the name of love.
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"Two plus two will always equal four, even if five resents it." [SOURCE]
The "he" in question is Family Policy Institute of Washington Executive Director Joseph Backholm. His goal? Making his state's lawmakers seem like anti-intellectual emotionalists who are too caught up in their own belief in love and equality to ever understand the social conservatives' oh-so-lock-solid desire to exalt heterosexist discrimination as if it's an American value. In Joseph's world, civil marriage is only to seen through the faith-based, child-mandatory prism that people like Maggie Gallagher have told us it is. Anyone who supports the church-separated notion whereby committed, tax-paying same-sex couples are granted the same fair shake afforded to equally qualified opposite-sex duos is not simply coming at it from another perspective. No, no -- they are in possession of a brain that is sadly masked by a Ghostbusters-like slash mark.
"The Death of Reason," Joseph calls us. But whatever. If I had such a dearth of reasons supporting my biased view, I'd probably resort to hyperbole as well.