Andrew Sullivan argues that the proposed anti-gay marriage
amendment isn't going anywhere. Aside from the hard-core religious
right, he contends:
conservatives rightly view the Constitution as a sacred document to be messed with only very carefully. Many conservatives will oppose such an amendment on those grounds alone. They should. --
Wouldn't that be a wonderful use of conservative resources: going around the country actually trying to break up committed couples. And all under the pro-family banner!
For more evidence on the anti-gay, pro-family right's ideological confusion, check out the vignette below. It's a few weeks old, but I just came across this piece by the Washington Post's Hank Stuever on an "abstinence convention" in, of all places, Las Vegas:
Amy Stephens, a former Focus on the Family counselor from Colorado Springs, who now works full-time as an abstinence consultant, chipperly describes her enthusiasm for the movement's success in schools. When asked if the movement will ever teach gay teens to wait until they too can get married, she smiles, blinks twice, as if her brain reboots, then says she doesn't see how abstinence-only programs are going to be able to do that. "But isn't that an excellent question," she gushes, then proclaims: "Whew! I need a Starbucks!"
Eventually the rightwingers will have to confront their cultural
contradictions, or they'll totally short circuit!