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Some of us don't believe homosexuals couples should use an event for children to make a political statement.

Then just ignore them. Do you realize that a good 80% of America won't even know that this event took place?

As I see it, the problem is they've organized to make a political statement at an event for children and will quite possibly shatter the innocence of other children. While I can understand your statement to ignore them, the comment reminds me of the statement by Edmund Burke:

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Do you realize that a good 80% of America won't even know that this event took place?

Oh, baloney. The gays' allies in MSM will be going on about it morning, noon, and night, if the gays pull this off. And yes, they will tell us straight out -- it's a win for "inclusivity" and for defining deviancy down for gays and up for traditional families.

In a recent essay in The American Scholar titled "Defining Deviancy Down," Daniel Patrick Moynihan offers an arresting view of the epidemic of deviancy -- of criminality, family breakdown, mental illness -- that has come to characterize the American social landscape. Deviancy has touched such incomprehensible proportions, argues Moynihan, that we have had to adopt a singular form of denial: we deal with the epidemic simply by defining away most of the disease. We lower the threshold for what we are prepared to call normal in order to keep the volume of deviancy -- redefined deviancy -- within manageable proportions.....
Moynihan's powerful point is that with the moral deregulation of the 1960s, we have had an explosion of deviancy in family life, criminal behavior and public displays of psychosis. And we have dealt with it in the only way possible: by redefining deviancy down so as to explain away and make "normal" what a more civilized, ordered and healthy society long ago would have labeled -- and long ago did label -- deviant.
-- Charles Krauthammer, "Defining Deviancy Up", The New Republic, Nov. 22, 1993, p. 20.

Gotcha, Sinky.

Of course, I also wonder whether you yourself believe what you just said, it is so incredibly dense.