Posted on 08/19/2010 6:18:04 AM PDT by throwback
Together with my good friend and occasional courtroom adversary David Boies, I am attempting to persuade a federal court to invalidate California's Proposition 8—the voter-approved measure that overturned California's constitutional right to marry a person of the same sex.
My involvement in this case has generated a certain degree of consternation among conservatives. How could a politically active, lifelong Republican, a veteran of the Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush administrations, challenge the "traditional" definition of marriage and press for an "activist" interpretation of the Constitution to create another "new" constitutional right?
My answer to this seeming conundrum rests on a lifetime of exposure to persons of different backgrounds, histories, viewpoints, and intrinsic characteristics, and on my rejection of what I see as superficially appealing but ultimately false perceptions about our Constitution and its protection of equality and fundamental rights.
Many of my fellow conservatives have an almost knee-jerk hostility toward gay marriage. This does not make sense, because same-sex unions promote the values conservatives prize. Marriage is one of the basic building blocks of our neighborhoods and our nation. At its best, it is a stable bond between two individuals who work to create a loving household and a social and economic partnership. We encourage couples to marry because the commitments they make to one another provide benefits not only to themselves but also to their families and communities. Marriage requires thinking beyond one's own needs. It transforms two individuals into a union based on shared aspirations, and in doing so establishes a formal investment in the well-being of society. The fact that individuals who happen to be gay want to share in this vital social institution is evidence that conservative ideals enjoy widespread acceptance. Conservatives should celebrate this, rather than lament it.
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Prot was spouting lines from the movie “K-pax” where the main character “Prot” is a psychiatric patient played by Kevin Spacey. The plot synopsis from IMDB:
After being arrested at Grand Central Station in New York City, a man calling himself Prot (Spacey), who claims to have travelled to Earth from his home planet of K-PAX, is taken to the Manhattan Psychiatric Centre because he is believed to be mentally ill.
After a month on Thorazine with no results, Mark Powell (Bridges), a psychiatrist, meets with Prot and decides to treat him. Prot seems peaceful and is extremely knowledgeable, even baffling astrophysicists with his uncanny knowledge of astronomy. However, when Prot has a seemingly violent episode at Dr Powell’s house, Dr Powell proceeds with regression therapy to find out more about Prot’s past. The therapy leads Dr Powell to discover an emotionally painful history, linked to a man named Robert Porter. Time is running out, as Prot says he will be returning to K-Pax in a few days; and Dr Powell tries to help get to the truth.
Meanwhile, Prot meets the other patients of the Psychiatric Centre and takes it upon himself to help them, in his own way. Is Prot really from outer space or is he deluded?
Besides, when they are gone, it leaves more room for the rest of us. :-)
Alrighty then. The poster was a loony.
Or drunk or just finished watching the movie or both. LOL
LJ,
I think he took a particular liking to you. My guess is he’s a retread who was ZOTted while sparring with you in the past. Any clue who he might have been?
Thanks. I am singularly ignorant of entertainment stuff. The only time I had a TV since I was 17 was a couple of years when Klintoon was sullying the Oval Office. Got to see him lie on TV!
Pretty much the same with movies.
I don’t want him to loike me!
No clue, there have been so many...
LJ, any ideas about identity? As 50mm said, he zeroed in on you.
Too bad I’m not organized. I could have made a list of banned trolls with comments about them.
Really no clue. I know I’ve gotten a lot of them mad at me, though.
Perhaps he’s someone who posts on some of those forums that talk stink about FR?
there a reason you pinged me ???
Btw, notice his tagline? It changed with every post. The last one was “prot is gone.”
I think that most of those have shut down.
Have we stumbled upon Kevin Spacey’s fun time?
I saw that. The taglines were also quotes from the movie. I saw the movie.
I understood the quotes to be from something. Looking at the tags I’d say he committed suicide. Just a really weird incident.
Notice how he picked News Week to speak his mind. The transformation is Complete.
Parsifal. Third person.
Polygamy more often means polygyny (multiple wives) but in some rarer instances it means polyandry (multiple husbands). In polyandrous marriages, the husbands are most likely brothers. They have one wife in common. If a man can't be a father, at least he can be an uncle. One of the goals in such a union is to limit offspring due to scarcity of resources (land, etc.).
Yeah. It was weird enough to be Parsy. Was he banned?
Most polygamous cultures or cultures that allowed it seem from my reading to have polygyny - more than one wife per husband. I didn’t know that word.
Even in ancient Hindu culture or Vedic culture it was mostly royalty who had multiple wives - they could afford it. I never read of multiple husbands in the OT, not that I am a scholar!
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