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Oh, that slippery slope to polygamy ... (4.00 / 1)

I'm with Ginty! We've been fighting this battle against the direct line of causation: same sex marriage equality->polygamy->perdition, at least since Mitt Romney's  great-grandfather, Miles Park Romney, married his fifth wife in 1897 (more than six years after Mormon leaders banned polygamy and more than three decades after a federal law barred the practice). Of course, polygamy was practiced by the Mormons as a direct consequence of their embracing same sex marriage in ... well, what year WAS it that Moroni said same sex marriage was cool by the new revelation, anyway?

And then, in 1932, we were faced with THIS:

Capt. Spaulding: [to Mrs. Rittenhouse and Mrs. Whitehead] Let's get married.
Mrs. Whitehead: All of us?
Capt. Spaulding: All of us.
Mrs. Whitehead: Why, that's bigamy.
Capt. Spaulding: Yes, and it's big of me too.

Of course, on the topic of Republican primaries, I have to remind us all of Harry Truman's quip, oft attributed to Kissinger regarding the Iran-Iraq war. But it was back in 1941, when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, then Senator Truman quipped, "I hope they both lose."

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by: denniscmcgrath @ Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 14:53:36 PM UTC

Ironically... (0.00 / 0)

Of all the GOP candidates for president, only Romney has had one (1) wife...Rudy Giuliani is the "Roman Grant" of the GOP....

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by: BigDaddyDem @ Tue Jun 05, 2007 at 01:55:35 AM UTC

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You know, it's hard to make Steve Lonegan appear moderate, but Ginty seems to have found the knack.

XT

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by: Thurman Hart @ Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 15:23:46 PM UTC

Ginty is not only anti-gay, he's anti-Jewish (4.00 / 1)

In this Bergen Record column, Ginty says the movement for marriage equality in New Jersey is being run by a small group of liberals and New Yorkers.

That's code for Jewish people.

"New Yorkers" and "liberal New Yorkers" is like using the words "flamboyant" or, in the old days "confirmed bachelor," for gay people. 

In Ginty's case, he's seen me enough in the Bergen Record, his and my hometown paper, with my wearing a yarmulke, that there's no question his sentiment reflects this additional prejudice. 

 

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by: Steven Goldstein, Garden State Equality chair @ Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 15:50:12 PM UTC

I say Ginty's a homophobe (0.00 / 0)

because he would recriminalize consensual adult behavior because it offends his sense of morality -- without a shred of evidence in reality that such behavior is damaging in any way to society, and with boatloads, veritable MOUNTAINS of evidence proving that such criminalization, scapegoating and ostracism creates creates enormous mental, emotional and financial (remember marriage equality) individuals, families and society, NOT to mention physical beat-downs unto death.

The party I hope the Democrats are is the one that is against fools who would defend recriminalization of consensual adult sexual behavior.

That's why I say he's a homophobe.

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by: denniscmcgrath @ Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 18:21:10 PM UTC

And I forgot anti-semite. (0.00 / 0)

Yeah, Daddy. Because I say so.

And by the way, describing someone as behaving hysterically is a slur against women, but you knew that, didn't you? "Hysterical liberal" parses as "girlie man" where I stand.

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by: denniscmcgrath @ Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 18:24:02 PM UTC

Origins (4.00 / 1)

For those not in the know (like BigDaddyDem), the term "hysteria" came into use in the 17th century and was used to described a neurotic condition in women that at the time was believed to be caused by a dysfunction of the uterus.  Root word is from the latin hystericus, which translates into "of the womb" and also is the root for words like hysterectomy.

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by: PocketAces @ Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 20:50:09 PM UTC

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Thank you for the Latin quiz (0.00 / 0)

And your point is?

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by: BigDaddyDem @ Mon Jun 04, 2007 at 22:01:41 PM UTC

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Not a latin quiz (4.00 / 2)

That was a small etymology lesson.  The quiz will be tomorrow.

Did I have a major point? Nope.  Sometimes it's nice to just add a little background to the conversation.  Help a few people realize why Dennis said that using the term "hysterical" is at its base an attack on women.  Most people don't realize that "hysterical" is a gender specific term, so it helps to educate them.

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by: PocketAces @ Tue Jun 05, 2007 at 01:15:25 AM UTC

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thank you (0.00 / 0)

just thank you!

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by: zora01 @ Tue Jun 05, 2007 at 01:35:53 AM UTC

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Why are you gender obsessed? (0.00 / 0)

You should author a dictionary on political correctness for rubes like myself...

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by: BigDaddyDem @ Tue Jun 05, 2007 at 01:51:43 AM UTC

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"Separate but equal" (0.00 / 0)

In 1954 the US Supreme Court said that "separate" was "inherently unequal."  The case was Brown v. Board of Education, and I bet today's Supreme Court would go the other way, alas.  But the 1954 Court was exactly right.

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."  (Teddy Roosevelt)

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by: DottieG @ Tue Jun 05, 2007 at 16:15:26 PM UTC