Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Stupid is as stupid does.



From the NYT  :
Young Opponents of Same Sex Marriage Fight On

WASHINGTON — They hear that their cause is lost, that demographics and the march of history have doomed their campaign to keep marriage only between a man and a woman. But the young conservatives who oppose same-sex marriage — unlike most of their generation — remain undaunted.They identify themselves as part of the “pro-marriage movement” and see themselves at the beginning of a long political struggle, much like the battle over abortion. If they can begin shifting the terms of the debate away from gay rights and toward the meaning of marriage, they say, they have a chance to survive short-term defeats. (the rest )

 Blah blah blah - some tired ass POINTLESS story on just how hard it is to be a homo-hating Christian in today's wicked wicked society. " Why on Why can't we live in the Theocracy that we crave.....? "

The same, again meaningless dribble from the freaking Heritage Society that we had from last week ( 2+2 = P.M.D. )

My only question is , if the New York Times, all the news that is fit to print, et all, feels the need to run a puff piece on these flat earthers, why did they not feel the need to run this head line and story last week :

Young Opponents of Segregation Fight On




A panel discussion on race at the Conservative Political Action Conference turned into a debate over slavery and segregation when an attendee from North Carolina said that "young, white, Southern males" are being disenfranchised by Republicans. 
 Scott Terry, 30, rose from his seat to question the discussion leader, K. Carl Smith, from the Frederick Douglass Republicans, over the role of race in the Republican Party. Terry said that the growth of diversity in the party and outreach to black conservatives has been "at the expense of young, white, Southern males like myself."
 "I think my demographic is being systematically disenfranchised," Terry said. Smith responded by telling a story about a letter that abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass wrote to his former slaveowner forgiving him for holding him in servitude. "For giving him shelter and food?" asked Terry, as some members of the audience gasped and others laughed.
 Think Progress reported that Terry later said he supports segregation. Terry told Think Progress following the panel discussion that he believed that whites have been “systematically disenfranchised” by the federal government. 
He also told Think Progress he'd "be fine" with a society with blacks subservient to whites. African Americans, he said, should vote in Africa. He claimed the tea party agrees with him. 
 Terry is not the first Southern Republican in recent months to make comments supporting slavery. Last year, several Republican state legislators in Arkansas endorsed slavery in new books, including one who suggested that the practice "may have been a blessing" for slaves by bringing them to the United States. State GOP leaders pulled support for the candidates.

What is the possible difference in these two Opinions ??

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