I'm with bloggernista. If Focus on the Family is setting up camp in Massachusetts, it's time to help out the Bay Staters at MassEquality.
Meanwhile, I worry that Dale (or anyone, really - it's not personal) might be underestimating the power of a nouveau campaign to "save the children", if such a thing forms a linchpin in the upcoming struggles in Massachusetts and, now, apparently in New York, with Spitzer's initiative.
That is to say, not its power in argument, but its emotive power. This change suggests a shift in rhetoric, perhaps, to the gay and lesbian children who are cruelly cut out of such a 'campaign' and some other things, many already being expertly voiced, but including other "greater goods" arguments, like gays and lesbians who want to take a share of society's responsibility to raise the next generation (while earning back some of the HUGE tax that lesbian and gay folks pay altruistically to the nation's school budgets). Afterall, it is George and Wilcox who are on about combatting "demographic decline" as a moral imperative.
footnote: in doing research for an upcoming, I've found out an interesting factoid.
I'm not going to impugn David Blankenhorn's motives outright, since he does genuinely seem to be concerned with difficult social issues around marriage for non-gays, even if I think he's not really the St. Jerome of marriage (and certainly not a Mother Theresa). However, for his pains on behalf of marriage and fatherhood, Mr. Blankenhorn was paid $235,000 in salary in 2006 plus $17K+ in benefits and the institute had $16K+ in travel expenses. Maggie Gallagher only made $102,000 from her newly formed organization at "marriage-non-debate" dot com.
Monday, April 30, 2007
One Light is Hung in the Old North Church
