I think so. The whole "controversy' just abruptly came rushing up out of nowhere right after Bush declared victory in Iraq. Since we were obviously going to be there for a much longer time,you could expect an antiwar movement,but just at that very moment,a guy in NYC got a wealthy Jewish couple to bankroll a lavish set of offices,a spankin' new organization to promote gay marriage and - most important - a huge account to hire one of the nation's top P.R. firms which then flooded the media with stories about The Pressing urgency of Gay Marriage Or The Sky Will Fall. Then look what happens. Down come the antiwar banners. Up go the gay marriage banners. Any resistance to the war becomes highly dilute; meanwhile all the people who would normally oppose the war - actively - are running around responding to the media campaign for gay marriage. Sounds like curious timing to me. The guy who got it started was that joe who lost a supreme court case about gay scouts,forget the name. Comments?
2007-05-21 11:08:35 · 20 answers · asked by Galahad 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Oh yeah,Wolf son that's his name. He even whipped off a movement bible called Why Marriage Works. Anyway,that's the guy who triggered off the current media rage for this whipped-up overnight pseudo-issue.
2007-05-21 11:50:26 · update #1
Yes, absolutely.
I cannot agree more.
2007-05-21 11:11:59 · answer #1 · answered by NONAME 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Politically yes it is at the forefront to pull eyes away from the disaster that is the War in Iraq.
I graduated college in '91, my closest friend from college is gay. I have been supporting gay rights including the right of marriage for everyone since the late 80's because I believe it is a basic human right. However, like anything that can be socially manipulated, politics uses it as a way to pull eyes away from issues it does not want questioned at all.
I think it is a shame the way politicians conduct themselves at times. Every person of America deserves better.
2007-05-21 11:16:11 · answer #2 · answered by genaddt 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess Hurricane Katrina was to sidetrack attention also. Not everything that happens is a government plot to manipulate public opinion. The gay marriage debate really heated up when local municipalities started issuing marriage licenses, San Francisco being one of the first. I would hardly believe San Francisco participated in helping the government sidetract the debate on the war in Iraq.
2007-05-21 11:17:12 · answer #3 · answered by BS 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think people who feel strongly on either side of the issue believe it is a "gimmick." Those who oppose it feel that heterosexual marriage is an important enough social (and often religious) institution to defend that it warrants not recognizing homosexual marriage, and those who are for it frame it as an issue of equal rights. No, I don't think it's a gimmick, I think it is a domestic issue, whereas the war in Iraq is mostly a foreign policy issue. Do you live in a magical country that only has one problem at a time?
2007-05-21 11:52:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This issue was brewing long before 9/11.
It started in HI.
I think homosexuals are doing more damage than helping their cause.
If you would start with civil unions like they have in WI.
But it has failed in OR, CA, or where ever public vote.
Trying to shove it through the courts is a big mistake.
Need an example of court ruling that has cause a firestorm.
Abortion and we still dealing with it.
Both sides do enough screaming the issue gets lost.
2007-05-21 11:15:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
GAy marriage is not to distract attention away from Iraq. However, the focus on it is to detract attention and to scare Christians into voting for Republicans. Gay marriage should be a non-issue. It takes perverts caring what their kind of sex people down the street are having.
2007-05-21 11:37:35 · answer #6 · answered by Jim San Antonio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I disagree. I think it's the war in Iraq that sidetracked attention from the issue of gay marriage.
Seems rather funny to me that when Dubya declared support for a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, and was unable to muster up support for the bill, it was dropped.
The war in Iraq has taken total focus from the issue of gay marriage. In an average day, the term "gay marriage" hardly ever arises in the media, but we Americans can't get enough of hearing exactly how many of our soldiers were killed in Iraq from one day to the next.
2007-05-21 11:15:44 · answer #7 · answered by Adam G 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You're thinking way too much, G. Anti-war sentiment is stronger than ever. Gay marriage was an issue way before the war in Iraq was. Both are hot-button topics for the next election. Nothing's changed, really.
2007-05-21 11:13:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, in a way it is; it was also a ploy in the past 2 elections, once in the last presidential race and then again in the most recent Congressional elections. It's only to get votes, make people feel like unless they vote Republican they are gay-loving hippies. Worked the first time, not so much the second.
2007-05-21 11:13:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Uhm. No. First of all. LOVE is LOVE. No matter what color or gender. There is a controversy over gay marriage because a select few people define it as wrong and immoral. But some gays and lesbians thing its wrong and immoral to be with someone of the opposite sex.
Maybe it is being brought out into the open now because people are gaining more confidence to be themselves and not hide behind their daily masks.
2007-05-21 11:16:26 · answer #10 · answered by ☮Miss Ashley☮ 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
What?
No, the support for LGBT rights have been around a lot longer then Bush's push for a war in Iraq and the two issues have nothing to do with each other.
Really now, what is with your dislike of gays? What you don't want LGBTs to have equal rights?
2007-05-21 11:24:03 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋