Re: Replying To Charlie was Re: [Marxism] Cockburn on the elections

[Intense Red <intnsred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 > I don't really want to go into the pros and cons of
 > marriage.  but the point is really equality.  Straights can
 > get married, why shouldn't gays be able to do so too?
 > The question whether anyone at all should get married is of
 > course irrelevant.

   While I agree with you that Cockburn's position is illogical, I wouldn't be
so quick to write off the whole gov't role in marriage.

   Marriage is a religious issue and the state should not be involved.  That
mindset can be used to play into the right's libertarian ideals and rhetoric,
can be used to counter the "marriage tax" propaganda, and can appeal to
social liberals who wonder about the divorce rate and realize the hurdles in
getting gay marriage enacted.  It also aims straight at the religious right
using "small gov't" rhetoric that they would have to dance around.

 In solidarity.

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state power with corporate power." --Benito Mussolini, the 1930s Italian
dictator who "invented" fascism


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