Revealing details about a person's life that are relevant to the matter at hand should not be characterized as an "attack".

If you said he was a dirty manwhore, without proof, that would be an attack.

How does learning lessons from beating your wife make him uniquely qualified to be a bigot and oppose gay marriage?

Oh... unless he's imagining that his wife is a gay advocate while he's beating her.

Typical right wing scum. There are now several states where gay marriage is legal. How, Mr. Sickley, has it hurt marriage? Whereas you, Mr. Sickley, have been anything but a proponent of marriages. Maybe in Sickley world people like you are saving marriage. Not in reality world.

Stop trying to confuse Mr. Stickney with your reason and logic.

If learning from two bad divorces has shown Larry how important marriage is, then why is he trying to take away the right for gay people to get married.

Clearly marriage is as important to gay people as it is to Larry... Wait! OMG!

Gay people and Larry Stickney actually AGREE on something...

So, its the homosexuals fault he used to beat his wife and his first marriage failed?

Dude, we're not trying to keep you from the public debate--we're trying to keep the debate honest. You tell people that you want to protect marriage. In reality, however, you have such little regard for protecting marriage that you abused your wife physically and mentally and committed other crimes against your family. You did nothing to protect your own marriage, instead doing everything you could to destroy it.

When you are engaged in the public debate, people have the right to know what a douchebag you actually are, particularly when you are asking the public to do something that you were unwilling to do.

Dear Mr. Stickney,

Nobody is trying to prevent you from having your say in the public square. Go right ahead. Advocate your position all you want. Pick up that megaphone, stand on that soapbox, and say your piece.

I don't see anyone trying to deny your right to do so.

But your First Amendment rights don't require the rest of the state to listen to you without criticism. If you want to advocate for "traditional marriage", it seems perfectly reasonable to question your credibility when you are a wife beater, a thief, and a divorcee.

Toots,

RP

Dom-
We appreciate you holding the hypocrite's feet to the fire, but you missed the key part of his defense. That wife beating stuff happened "prior to giving my total commitment to follow Jesus Christ".
See, that stuff doesn't count, because I wasn't Christian enough.

It's the classic addict's projection, most often seen in the AA circles. If you believe in a "higher power" (HP), you can use that HP to erase all the bad things you feel shitty about. Unable to control your alcoholism? The HP will control it for you! Racked with guilt because you cheated on your spouse? Jesus forgives you, so it's all right! If you simply can't take ownership of yourself, you create someone who can... someone who just happens to respond to your dreams & wishes. Think of why children invent imaginary friends, and you're on the right track.

Remember, Jesus makes you better than other people!

Please give the world the quote where this guy said that all a marriage needs to succeed is a man and a woman. I doubt he's ever said anything of the sort.