Is The Lawsuit Against Multnomah County Merely A Political Tool?
Musings On The Opposition To Same-Sex Marriage In Oregon This is all pure speculation on our part, and perhaps it’s just our innate sense of cynicism, but we are beginning to suspect that the lawsuit against Multnomah County never was intended as anything but a campaign of public visibility, intended to stoke the flames of prejudice, keep impassioned opinions boiling, generate attention, and energize the base of support for the statewide ballot initiatives against same-sex marriage. This might be why we’ve argued so strenuously that incendiary complaints about the process, even among backers of same-sex marriage, and especially when distinctions were not made between the legality of the process and its political strategy (distinctions which, fortunately, are being made more often now), risks playing into the hand of the enemy camp — it helps keep anti-government sentiment in the very public eye so that it can be misrepresented and manipulated by opponents of same-sex marriage. (As we
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