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May 9 cgd commented on The Catholic Church Prepares for "the 'Roe Vs. Wade' of Marriage".

Shocking. The Catholic Church was also against women's suffrage. They didn't want mothers "debasing" themselves by voting.

May 9 cgd commented on The American Health Care Market.

I think what you meant to say was:

The overbilling is a way for the hospitals to make lots of money.

Apr 14 cgd commented on This Mornings NYT Book Review.

Nice review.

Apr 11 cgd commented on John Corvino: It Gets Better.

By far his best effort yet.

I don't understand how he can say that all the priests etc. were wonderfully supportive (5 minutes into the video),
when earlier he said that priests told him to never act on his feelings (@ 1:15), which is IMHO heartless and cruel.

Then again I also don't understand how parishioners continue to support such cruelty.

Apr 8 cgd commented on Thatcher's Death: Two Questions.

Cameron himself voted to keep Section 28 in 2003 when it was repealed by members of the Labour party.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/…

Apr 1 cgd commented on Cardinal Dolan to Gay Couples: "You're Entitled to Friendship.".

Audio of Bill Kristol haughtily lamenting the turn towards gay rights:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/bill-kris…

De-li-cious.

He and the Catholic Church can huddle together for warmth.

Mar 27 cgd commented on Be Careful What You Wish for on Prop 8 and DOMA.

I never thought most Americans would support gay marriage before they supported, say, basic health insurance for every citizen. Or excellent teachers for every child. Or some minimally decent reward for full-time work. In fact, for the last decade I assumed that the prominence of gay marriage as an issue would be an impediment to the pursuit of those other goals.

Boy, was I wrong. But this line of reasoning helps explain (although it doesn’t excuse) my own moral cowardice on gay marriage.

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Maybe America’s accelerated “evolution” on gay marriage proves that the ultimate taboo in our society is redistribution. As Martin Luther King Jr. learned near the end, securing legal equality turned out to be the easy part. Nobody had to write a check. Equal opportunity and economic justice are entirely different matters, requiring a nation to take even bigger leaps of empathy and imagination.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/m…

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Mar 26 cgd commented on Be Careful What You Wish for on Prop 8 and DOMA.

@29

"I think people are free to marry any way they want to."

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/…

Who is that quote from? It's from 66-year-old GOP Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions. Sure, he still says marriage is for a man and a woman, but could you imagine that quote coming from a Deep South Republican Senator 4 or 8 years ago?

Mar 26 cgd commented on Be Careful What You Wish for on Prop 8 and DOMA.

@29 Bring on the backlash, I say; I'm tired of the lash.

Yeah I heard Dan Savage, like you, wring his hands about the backlash on Up with Chris Hayes this weekend. At worst, the absolute worst, the backlash will last one election cycle in some of the red states in 2014, and when the world doesn't end, 2016 will be like nothing ever happened. Just like with the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, it will be a complete non-event for homophobic heterosexuals. Marriage equality is now polling as a MAJORITY position. Have a little freaking courage!

Mar 26 cgd commented on The 50 State Solution.

The 8-state solution would be the worst. Then it's state-by-state for the next 10 years (I'm guessing that's when SCOTUS would evolve again), and for the next states there's no training-wheel phase: it's either marriage or nothing, so states with marriage pull up the ladder behind them once they've gotten to the top and the rest can suck it.