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[sleigh]

Orson Scott Card on the horror of same-sex marriage.

Almost needless to say, we don't agree. Card's bottom line: same-sex marriage is the end of democracy, and justifies violent overthrow of the government. "Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn."

Marriage has only one definition, and it is in Card's personal dictionary and nowhere else.

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[rmeidaking.livejournal.com]

I was having trouble sleeping last night, because part of my brain was trying to compose a blog on the topic, "Conservatives are the real terrorists." It started with the concept that most modern terrorists are in fact members of conservative factions; certainly this was true of Timothy McVeigh, Eric Robert Rudolph and the 9/11 pilots, suicide bombers in the Middle East, and that guy in Tennessee yesterday. What we really need to fear is people telling us what we should think, especially our government. I wasn't getting very far with it, but this ties right into the argument.

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

"If the government tolerates perceptions of reality that differ from mine, that government is WRONG and must be brought down."

Very brittle thinkers, those people.

[maiac.livejournal.com]

If you're not reading David Neiwert's blog Orcinus (http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/), you should be. He writes lucidly and insightfully about the White Supremacists, Dominionists, and that ilk. It's scary reading, but better to know than to be unprepared.

[rmeidaking.livejournal.com]

Maybe. I have trouble with any dedicated political blog.

I want to get a bumper sticker that says: "Republicans: Join the party of Old White Men." Really, OWM (Old White Man) should become a pejorative acronym, IMO.