Let me propose a hypothesis to you. Most of the people who voted to outlaw gay marriage don’t really care about gay marriage at all. They care about their own lives and the rising divorce rate, resulting from the tumult and chaos that is part of our changing society. The thing is, even if homos didn’t exist, society would continue to change and they’d still be unhappy. Divorce rates are high for totally unrelated reasons. A successful response would be listening to the concerns that people are voicing, and how the Republicans successfully sold people on it, then designing something that actually addresses people’s concerns rather than resisting the proposed Republican “solution”.<\/p>\n
Talk about the rising divorce rate, and how it can be reduced. Say, mandatory waiting times for marriage with offers of education or counseling. Then point out how outlawing gay marriage will hurt straight people by creating unstable marriages as gay people deperately try to conform, until they can’t take it anymore, and end up killing themselves or divorcing their spouse.<\/p>\n
Our fundamental values are right. <\/p>\n
Ranting about the stupidity\/malice\/inattention\/thoughtlessness of the American public accomplishes nothing except piss people off. They are real people. They matter. <\/p>\n
The failure to identify and address people’s concerns is where the Kerry\/Edwards ticket lost. It’s not about having the answers. It’s about providing people with a warm fuzzy. On the bread and circuses front, the dems need more circuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Let me propose a hypothesis to you. Most of the people who voted to outlaw gay marriage don’t really care about gay marriage at all. They care about their own lives and the rising divorce rate, resulting from the tumult and chaos that is part of our changing society. The thing is, even if homos … Continue reading “reframing gay marriage”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}