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This is so typical. And it reminds me of another exchange 2 years ago, reported by Juan Melli as Anti-gay crusader admits the sky won't fall (Blue Jersey Feb. 2008). It's an exchange between Garden State Equality's Steven Goldstein and John Tomicki, head of the New Jersey Coalition to Preserve and Protect Traditional Marriage, and a good example of how these folks are so busy huffing and puffing about how equality will wreck traditional life that they have no room in their heads to explain the math on how. - - promoted by Rosi
This week's New Yorker has a long article on the legal strategy of overturning Prop. 8 in California. The end of the article has a great analysis of how the gay-marriage opponents are lying in their claims. Here's the passage:
"For example, one of the arguments that the anti-gay-marriage side has increasingly turned to outside the courtroom is that allowing same-sex marriage would hurt heterosexual marriage. At the pretrial hearing, Judge Walker kept asking Charles Cooper, the lawyer defending Proposition 8, how exactly it did so. "I'm asking you to tell me," he said at last, "how it would harm opposite-sex marriage."
"All right," Cooper said.
"All right," Walker said. "Let's play on the same playing field for once."
There was a pause -- it seemed like a long one to people in the courtroom, though it was probably only a few seconds. And Cooper said, "Your Honor, my answer is: I don't know. I don't know." |
