He Just Wants to Dance

Published on December 15, 2006

The line that really jumped out at us from the news of the New Jersey legislature’s vote for civil unions was this: “But Assemblyman Ronald S. Dancer, a Republican from Ocean County, said that the bill was an affront to the Bible, and that ‘this is one time that I cannot compromise my personal beliefs […]

The line that really jumped out at us from the news of the New Jersey legislature’s vote for civil unions was this: “But Assemblyman Ronald S. Dancer, a Republican from Ocean County, said that the bill was an affront to the Bible, and that ‘this is one time that I cannot compromise my personal beliefs and faiths.'” This one time! Man’s gotta draw the line somewhere. A whole lotta compromising is ok, but when it comes to, say, extending the right to visit a dying spouse in the hospital to known homosexuals — that’s where Ronald S. Dancer says, “You shall not pass!” We were curious about what could slip by ol’ Stonewall Dancer, so we looked in on his legislative record: Number three on the list of sponsored bills is this little compromise with the imperatives of scripture: A623, which “Limits the payment of transportation costs for homeless students.” Just what kind of man is tiny-hearted Dancer? You’ll have to turn to Hoof Beats, the official magazine of the U.S. Trotting Association — that’s for harness racing gambling operations — to find out, in this totally uncompromising feature, “Dancing to a Different Beat.”

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