Reply #39: This Makes Sense For Them [View All]

[LoneStarLiberal]

The Bush/Cheney team really needs to rally their base considering they have played so many of their cards wrong that nearly each of their bases (except big business) has been alienated to varying degrees.

Playing the conservative Christian card with this issue shores up several leaky issues for the Bush/Cheney team with one fail swoop: Judiciary, advocacy, abortion, and family. Here's how it breaks down:

Judiciary: One of the things the wingnuts have been increasingly vocal about is nominating another Scalia to the Supreme Court and nominating more Rehnquist clones to the Federal bench. While the White House has certainly done their share of nominating corporate whores and haters of individual liberties, they so far have held back from giving the Flat Earthers the nominees they want. Making anti-gay politics a plank of their political platform will appease this group somewhat and allow the White House to push more moderatly conservative judicial appointees.

Advocacy: Another thing the wingnuts have been whining about for some time is a White House that is less political and more intolerant. If they are going to vote for a President then they want him to be as publically intolerant of homosexuality, abortion, and other religions as they are of the same things. Making this a party plank and pursuing the odious idea of this being made into a constitutional amendment will once more placate this vital part of the Bush/Cheney base for election.

Abortion: Surprisingly enough the issue of gay marriage has blown straight past abortion as the key issue of the 2004 campaign for the Flat Earthers. A strong stance on this issue will let the Bush/Cheney team off the substantially sharp hook on abortion to a degree.

Family: What discussion involving gay marriage and Republicans could ever be complete without talking about family? None, that's what. Whether we like it or not, a slight majority of Americans want to maintain the heterosexual monopoly on marriage for a variety of reasons. All of these reasons play into Republican hands and they will undoubtedly be rolling out all the barely concealed hate propaganda in all its glory.

There is a simple solution to most of their bigotry, too: One of the foundations of the few logical arguements you will hear from conservatives is that the government should not sanction homosexual marriage. I agree. I don't think the government should sanction ANY marrage at all beyond keeping records. Do away with the marriage tax permanently: END FEDERAL AND STATE SANCTIONING OF MARRIAGE. In one fail swoop you play to fiscal conservatives, libertarians, and the general conservative zeal for rolling back government. You also open the doors for gay marriages since it is no longer a matter of state or federal sanction.