Andrew Sullivan had a link to this screed posted as a Malkin Award nominee. As appalling as it is, take a look at it, and think about a couple of things.
Notice how often the editors ascribe "hate" to gays demonstrating against the Mormon Church because of Prop 8. There is no hint that gays are justifiably outraged at the Church's campaign to strip them of fundamental rights in California.
Notice the inflammatory language.
Notice the scary buzz words.
Notice the complete lack of any reference to the lies, distortions, and misrepresentations that were the core of the Yes on 8 campaign -- funded in large measure by Mormons at the instruction of their leaders.
I won't mention the reasoning, because there isn't any.
Notice especially how objecting to the role of the Mormons in the campaign is taken as evidence of an assault on freedom of religion, but the imposition of the beliefs of some Christians on the entire state of California -- Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, agnostics, atheists -- is "the will of the people."
Here's the contact information for National Review. I suggest you let them know what you think -- nicely. After all, we're better than they are.
That much is obvious.
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I notice also that the role of the Mormon Church in directing its members to give money and volunteer time/effort against same-sex marriage in nearly all of the thirty other jurisdictions where it has come to a vote is conveniently not mentioned.
This sort of thing is indicative to me of a couple of points:
How the right-wing media has sold itself to the religious fringe, and
How it is rapidly making itself irrelevant.
I admit I don't make a habit of following The Corner or NRO in general, but from what I've seen, they've become less and less able to deal with reality as the fortunes of the Republican party have sunk lower and lower.
That's probably a good thing, as long as people continue to ignore them, except as joke fodder.
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