End of conventional wisdom?

[The Vorlon]

The big problem for Democrats, at least as I see it, is that a party that claims to be the party of tollerance, has become profoundly intollerant and indeed dismissive and scornful of those who disagree with them.

"What would Jesus do?" is NOT the punchline of a joke about backward yokums from Alabama, and as long as the Democratic party treats it as such, they will be spotting the GOP 222 EVs in the south and plains states for a long time to come..

The Gay Marraige issue is symbolic of this problem.

What we have here is the classic clash between two legitimate and equal rights.

Gay people, obviously in my judgement, have the right to define and enter into a relationship under whatever terms they personally define.  

This is clearly an area that is simply outside any rational definition of scope of Government.

But and equivalent right also exists for relgious individuals, and callling a gay union a "marriage" is insulting to people of many faiths.

Imagine if somebody in the Moral Majority proposed the passage of a law that specifically said that Chapter 23, Verse 61 of the Koran was a load of crap and that the the specific stated policy of the Government of the United States was that this Chapter and Verse was morally defective and ethically repugnant.

(I have no idea what this verse is BTW, or if it even exists, I just grabbed numbers out of the air)

I am sure that if this ever happened, the ACLU, The NY Times, and every liberal from Rhode Island to California would be (appropriately) appalled and outraged.

So why is it different if the Chapter and Verse being scorned and repudiated happens to be from the Bible instead of the Koran...?

I am not a person of religious faith and do not claim to be an expert on the Bible, but the story of Sodom and Gamorragh (sp?) seems to me to be a fairly clear religious pronouncement against gay marriage.  To tens of millions of Christians, Jews, and Muslims to define marraige as anything other than one man and one women is a direct governmental repudiation of an important element of their religious faith.

The Christian's right to not have their faith ridiculed and scorned by the Government is also an absolute and unbreakable element of "tollerance" as well.  Again "What would Jesus do?" is NOT the punchline to a joke...

Call it a "civil union", call it a "domestic partnership", call it a ZarfelGrambit, why do you have to call it "marraige" and insult a 100 million citizens when you do it...?