Sara Beverley
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Thu Nov-04-04 04:21 PM
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26. She makes some good points but it was the phony issue of gay marriage |
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Out of public view, the Rovians, bombarded the evangelicals with visits to churches, mailings and quiet almost secret training sessions with over a million evangleical churches across the country, Rove is smart, give it to him. It took the calculated risk of pushing GW to go for a constitutional amendment (that even Bush doesn't want to see happen) to ban gay marriage. It was a genius move to get the hysterical evangelical out in force to vote for the ballot issue of gay marriage. These folks came out in the red states that were swing states to vote this single issue and while they were there, they voted for Bush. The Dems also missed the subltle message that inspired many black evangelicals to vote for GW also. The suble, almost incidental message sent to black church-goers who are with the Dems on almost everything else is that such a moral issue would not mean that much to them. As many have said, the Dems just take the black vote for granted and never seem to address the family and moral issues that black families for generations have honored and respected. The hardest anti-gay folks are in black families. Oh, don't get me wrong, they love and their gay family members but they think they are derranged and going straigt to hell (that's what my co-worker tells me.) They were anti-gay long before the white evangelicals brain-washed by Pat and Jerry thought it was "Christian" to be so. All the black families wanted to do was keep their gay family members in the closet and work on their soul salvation out of sight. Comes along the white evangelicals who embrace these blacks who share nothing else with them save the "love of God" and wham!!! They are included in and made to feel a viable part of a significant "Christian movement." It was a magnificant move on the part of Rove to see and understand that this one single issue could be stated simply, broadly, and convincinly and he pushed Bush out in front with the message. And this trumped anything that really mattered and really affected the lives of the evangels. I mean, come on, how many "married gays" does any evangelical even know or run into compared to the number of poor people they pass by on their city streets and rural roads each day? It was a strok of genious (and meaness) that the master Rove set in motion. Check the numbers and you will see exactly what I am talking about.
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