[trebb]

1. Kim Davis’s position is unwinnable. Nobody seriously expects her to get gay marriage overturned, or even to succeed in carving out a special zone of protection for public officials who, for reasons of conscience, refuse to carry out lawful decisions of the courts. Even if we believe that the Obergefell decision lacks moral legitimacy, there can be no doubt that as a matter of legal procedure, the Supreme Court’s decision is the law. Our side lost that battle decisively. Kim Davis’s stance, while it may be personally courageous, is going to result in another defeat, because it cannot be otherwise in our system. The only point of backing it is to flip the bird to the state and to the broader culture — something I have great sympathy for, but it’s a pointless gesture that can only hurt us in the battles to come.

This is how we have become what we have become - if one cannot win a war with a single battle, then don't fight the battle.

What does the author think will get used up in the battles that lead to eventual victory - can't run out of bullets or ideas but if we don't fight the battles there will be so much "precedence" that future battle will be rendered irrelevant and bullets will be the only thing left.

Kind of like a Star Trek soldier with atomic-powered laser weapons crying out "Keep your powder dry and don't fire until the enemy lays down and surrenders".

[HiTech RedNeck]

If people can get us to confine our thinking into little boxes, then they have enslaved us already... with chains that they don’t even have to forge because we will be forging them ourselves.

The conventional wisdom is for the lazy steady state of America. That could last only until it bowled a real gutterball, like it just has.