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Gay Marriage, GOP Secret Weapon
Jeff Sharlet: My colleague Ann and I decided to tune out of the election coverage around 1:30 am. We left the friends with whom we’d been watching to walk to the F train the long way, crosstown and down Sixth Avenue through Greenwich Village. At W. 4th, a man staggered toward us from across the street. He looked drunk; he was dirty; and he wore an American flag t-shirt that didn’t come close to covering his belly. “Admit it, Democrat,” he bellowed, closing fast. “Bush won!” He shook a fist at us. “And now I’m gonna shove my whole f-----g fist up your Democrat ass!”
The Marriage Campaign
Anti-gay marriage proposals may draw voters to the polls on Nov. 2, but the media storms that surround them drives democracy out of the story, writes Jason Boog. "I was furious when the Catholic Church tried to tell my hometown parish how to vote. They played a tape-recorded homily by Detroit’s Cardinal Adam Maida one Sunday, urging Michigan Catholics to support Proposal 2 this Tuesday, a marriage-ban ballot proposal that reads: 'The union of one man and one woman in marriage shall be the only agreement recognized as a marriage or similar union.' But until this year, Michigan gay activists weren’t really trying to win the right to marry..."
What God Gap? -- Pt. 5
Jason Boog: “I saw all these nuns, Baptist ministers, parents and children keep going, even though they knew the risks were higher,” the marcher told me after his friends were arrested. So he kept going, toward his own private showdown...
What God Gap?
Crossing Lines in the Culture War:
The Revealer gets religion outside the Garden at the Republican National Convention.
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