Shakes here…
Looking at a new HRC poll centered around the fall-out of the Mark Foley scandal, I find some rather curious results: 80% say that “making sure that gays and lesbians receive the same rights and protections under the law as other Americans” is either Very Important (47%), Fairly Important (14%), or Somewhat Important (19%). But only 66% of the total group polled support gay marriage (21%) or civil unions or some approximation (45%). Huh? That seems odd.
Especially when 66% also say that “protecting our traditional family values from the gay lifestyle” is either Very Important (42%), Fairly Important (9%), or Somewhat Important (15%). But only 31% of the total group polled believe “there should be no legal recognition of a relationship between gay or lesbian couples.”
So basically, 80% of people want to make sure gays and lesbians have equal rights, but a bunch of them don't support legalized gay marriage or civil unions. And 66% of people want to protect “traditional values from the gay lifestyle,” but a bunch of them do support legalized gay marriage of civil unions. And, clearly, some people who say that gays and lesbians should receive the same rights and protections under the law also say that we need to protect our traditional family values from the gay lifestyle. That’s just bizarre.
This proves two things: 1) Americans are a very schizophrenic lot. 2) Allowing such a collection of mixed-up birdbrains to vote on the rights of other people is A Very Bad Idea. They can't even be trusted to make any bloody sense, and yet we've conferred upon them the unprecedented entitlement of deciding whether to extend civil rights to others.
