Darren New wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> The reason Prop 8 passed is because the wackos staged it as an 
>> "religious" issue,
> 
> It *is* a religious issue. There's no secular reason to care about the 
> gender of who gets married. It even helps the economy, so I've read.
> 
Yeah. Of course, but my point is, they know "exactly" how to distort the 
arguments, so that the only thing most of the "believers" heard was 
those issues, not the secular matters. Or, to put it another way, they 
got a face full of, "Our definition of marriage is being threatened, and 
**nothing else is at issue**". If they had honestly been defending 
marriage they would have fought for a bill to adjust the definition, not 
ban what is 99% secular legal issues, and 1% religious ritual. The 
problem is, the argument to the black community was, "They are attacking 
tradition", when outside of that community, and those others that they 
"knew" where going to see the religious argument, the same people where 
talking about property ownership, patient rights, kin rights, etc.

It was shell game. So, yeah, it was religious, but only in the sense 
that, for the people pushing the idea, ***everything*** is religious, 
and they knew that the otherwise liberal voting black community would 
fall for that argument, without bothering to consider any other issue.

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