Milbank
went to the circus (Beware of elephant dung, friend!)
"The gays are aggressive! Gays have called war! Gays are attacking traditional marriage!"
Bishop Harry Jackson was shouting these words outside the Capitol yesterday morning, at a rally for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
"Marriage is under attack!" cried out Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.), also at the rally.
"We can have anarchy!" warned Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.).
....
"If we didn't believe in miracles, we wouldn't have spent our vacation money to come here," said Sandra Rodrigues of Utah, who with her family has been standing outside the Russell Senate Office Building all week, shouting at senators and displaying signs urging "Stop Same Sex Marriage: It Endorses Masturbation." "If same-sex marriage is endorsed," she explained, "then you're going to have children think it's just another option to have pleasure."
The real real real! danger is revealed by one conservative brainiac present who said,
"We have boys who are going to be in with your girls in the locker room and the restrooms." Yikes - No one told me, damn it! :eyes:
The confused and frustrated "ex-gay" would be almost pitiful if he weren't so hateful: "Our children are being raped every day of school by what's being taught. Are you mad? I'm mad. I'm so mad. God have mercy."
I really want to feel sorry for him, but no kidding: God have mercy.
To his credit, Milbank plainly frames this up front as a diversion. You know that the zealots haven't a leg to stand on when even
reporters are able to stymie them-
The moderator, Matt Daniels of the Alliance for Marriage, tried to find a question on another subject. But when reporters continued to press Allard on the link between same-sex marriage and deadbeat dads, Daniels blurted out: "All right, you know what? We're going to call this press conference to a close."
http://216.177.178.114.nyud.net:8090/century/photos/WAGON2~1.jpg