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Tom Barrett <tdbear@aracnet.com> wrote:
>What's up with George F. Will's column (see today in the Oregonian)
>calling the Supreme Court's recent ruling on gay participation in
>government as "Preposterous?"

Relax, Tom, the good guys won this one. 

6-3 is a resounding victory in the Supreme Court. Clarence Thomas
will vote the Limbaugh Line no matter what or how tortured it is. 
Scalia, while brilliant, is no friend of the common man. Neither
is Rehnquist. So don't worry. All the people who could possibly
have been swayed on the court went the right way. 

>When will people like George F. Will get it that laws which discriminate
>on inherent STATUS are not the American way! (Albeit, the American way
>is to take its sweet time to reach that conclusion.)

He compared this situation to polygamists. Frankly, this was a weak
column for a usually very sharp guy. (Some people seem to lose all
composure on this topic.) He said that if this was the model, states
could not disallow polygamy any more. 

He missed the point - the point is that while states may regulate
polygamy, they may not enact statutes that say "If
someone is a practicing or would-be polygamist, it's OK to discriminate
against them in jobs, housing, etc, even if they have broken no law." 

>What George F. Will and
>others obviously want to do is make a clean sweep of all homosexuals...

There's no evidence that this is the case with Will or many others. 
With Mabon, maybe you've got a point, but not with Will. 

Relax, enjoy a victory. George Will is just a pundit. Am. 2 is 
dead and that's the law of the land. It's time to smile and 
dance and rejoice. 

Tell Lon to stick that in his pipe and smoke it,

JZ
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