Andrew Sullivan: Never say gay: Bush plays a subtle vote card

The Sunday Times ^ | July 18, 2004 | Andrew Sullivan

[Happygal]

Oh me nerves! *LOL*

[GVnana]

by November it will be polarised to within an inch of its life.

We can and should expect a very tough battle. Undecideds tend to swing for the new guy, not the incumbent.

[little jeremiah]

None so blind as he who doesn't want to see.

[KangarooJacqui]

Sounds as if he has a touch of dildonic plague.

LOL... classic commentary if I ever saw it.

Cheers,
KaJac

[NutCrackerBoy]

For a while, I read Andrew's blog every day. He is very talented and often has good insights into war, freedom, and politics. In this piece, he made a good point that when the undecided are a smaller percentage, then the electoral strategy necessarily becomes get out the base.

But Sullivan is so excruciatingly wrong about the gay marriage issue that he becomes unreadable.

[Happygal]

KangarooJacqui..you are the one who requested I not address you on threads.

I respectfully suggest, you follow your own advice.

[Happygal]

I'm the one who lives half a world away from you, and for that you should be thankful.

BTW, please qualify.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Andy talks an awful lot about his penis.

[Happygal]

I have no intention of 'winning back' anything or anyone.

Nor have I ANY intention of lowering myself by playing out a crude game on a public forum.

[Happygal]

I have no intention of being bullied by you KJ.

[xm177e2]

his long diatribe about how celibacy is unnatural therefore, essentially, pushing priests into abusing young teens

That's not at all what he said. He said if there wasn't a celibacy requirement, more non-pedophiles would go into the priesthood. Part of the problem is that the Church is short of priests, so (the argument goes) it is less likely to turn away bad candidates.

I don't think Sullivan ever said depriving a normal person of sex would turn him into a child molester. I challenge you to find where he said that. I think you're (deliberately?) mis-stating his argument to make him look as bad as possible.

[Happygal]

So this is not being addressed?

[SAJ]

Classic? Hmmm.

Bet you even money though, that he occasionally eats possum stew... (g!)

[MadIvan]

I think it's been agreed that no further discussion is required.

Thank you.

Regards, Ivan

[Happygal]

I agree. And I hope so.

Regards,
A. :-)