Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2648
August 12, 2010
Support For Marriage Equality Accelerating? Ctd
Glenn Beck signs up. Money quote:
O'REILLY: Do you believe -- do you believe that gay marriage is a threat to the country in any way?
BECK: A threat to the country?
O'REILLY: Yeah, it going to harm the country?
BECK: No, I don't. Will the gays come and get us?
O'REILLY: OK. Is it going to harm the country in any way?
BECK: I believe -- I believe what Thomas Jefferson said. If it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket, what difference is it to me?
O'REILLY: OK, so you don't. That's...
At The Hour Of Their Death
Susan Orlean and Elizabeth Gilbert talk about a tragedy known to all dog owners: the vast difference between our life span and theirs. They take solace in what the death of a beloved pet can teach us:
Just a few days after that conversation was recorded Susan Orlean's dog died.
My own reflections on this subject here. But an update: Dusty this summer has sprung back to puppy levels of energy. Her bad leg has healed and as she got to the beach she has spent every summer of her life on, she b...
Support For Marriage Equality Accelerating?
What backlash? CNN's latest poll, in the wake of the Walker decision, is easily the most promising to date for those of us in support of marriage rights for all. For the first time, a slim majority of all Americans backs not just marriage, but a constitutional right to marriage for gay couples. A majority, in other words, believes this to be a civil rights issue, which, of course, it is, because civil marriage has long been regarded as a fundamental civil right in American constitutional h...
Yglesias Award Nominee II
"Why Sarah Palin decided to get in the race is beyond me. I don't know why she feels compelled to get into primaries all over the country. ... Well, yes, I wish she [would butt out of contested primaries:] because what she is doing is dividing the Republican Party at a time when we don't need to be divided," - Congressman Jack Kingston.
Man is he in for a shellacking.
Sarah Palin - Republican - Jack Kingston - Politics - United States
Quote For The Day
"Jews know that they can land on their feet in any corner of the world," - Ehud Barak, making a less familiar case for Zionism (or, rather for why Israel should risk engulfing the world in a new and terribly dangerous religious war to prevent long-term out-migration).
I hope to comment in greater depth soon on Jeffrey Goldberg's cover-story in the Atlantic.
Ehud Barak - Israel - Zionism - Jews - Middle East
"The Model For What A News Site Should Be"
Washington DC - United States - Dixie Chicks - Washington - Washington Post
Malkin Award Nominee
"Most great powers unravel from within before invading armies (or in America's case, terrorists) conquer them. A preacher might develop a good sermon on how nations fare when they mock God.No less a theological thinker than Abraham Lincoln concluded that our Civil War might have been God's judgment for America's tolerance of slavery. If that were so, why should "the Almighty," as Lincoln frequently referred to God, stay His hand in the face of our celebration of same-sex marriage?" - Cal...
Yglesias Award Nominee
"Conservatives cannot deny that our Founders intended the judiciary as an equal and independent branch of government purposed to ensure the protection of every citizen's rights.
The Supreme Court has previously ruled that the right to marry is a fundamental constitutional right.
When an unpopular minority is denied the right to marry, it is indeed the role of the courts to protect the rights of that minority, especially when a majority would deny them. This is why Judge Walker's opinion...
When The Islam-Bashing Started
Islamism - United States - George W. Bush - History - President
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