According to reports about a new study, mixed-race students are more likely to feel depressed, have trouble sleeping, skip school, smoke, and drink alcohol. Not all that long ago, mainstream (not extremist) social conservatives would have demagogued such findings to denounce mixed-race families. But no self-respecting conservative would question "race mixing" these days. That's progress. And after the gay equality struggle is as complete as the civil rights revolution, they'll somehow forget they ever complained about gays, too.
UnCivil Marriage
The discountblogger
explains how "social conservatives have blurred the line between
civil and religious marriage -- but only when it concerns gays and
lesbians." For instance:
Civil marriage...is not rooted in religious belief -- or, at least, it's not supposed to be. After all, a man and a woman who reject all forms of religious belief can still be married in this country. All they need to do is sign a piece of paper. Similarly, a Jew and a Christian -- even though they have fundamentally different religious beliefs -- can marry. And even then, with the blessings of the Right. Yet, two gay men, two completely religious gay men, both of whom have accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior, cannot.
The proposed Federal Marriage Amendment is not about protecting religion, he writes. It's about keeping gays out.
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