| So Adam Krauss wrote a really quite fine and nuanced piece on marriage equality and the potential ramifications of Maine's election on us.
Someone less fine and nuanced, but with an agenda, must have sent it to Republico's Ben Smith, who made linkbait out of it, with the headline "Reconsidering Marriage in New Hampshire" and with a blockquote and description that conveyed zero of the nuance.
From there, to Taegan, and thus, vapors and breathless emails ahoy.
Please. Let's start over, shall we, with some of the things in Krauss' piece that weren't splashed across the intertubes: Lynch wouldn't support repealing the gay-marriage law if it reached his desk, spokesman Colin Manning said. "It was carefully crafted legislation, now law, that protects the rights of all of our citizens and the governor would not support changing it," he said. andSlim chance of that happening, according to House Speaker Terie Norelli, D-Portsmouth. andThere are no proposals currently in the Senate, where Minority Leader Peter Bragdon, R-Milford, says lawmakers' agendas will reflect people's concerns over the economy, jobs and high taxes.
Besides, he said, the 14-10, party-line vote approving gay marriage won't change, he said. andDemocratic Chairman Raymond Buckley said the legislation "wouldn't make it out of either legislative body." Heck, even Civil Rights Leader Kevin Smith calls it an "uphill battle" in the piece, and John H. Sununu basically dismisses the idea of a repeal.
That's not to say we shouldn't do everything possible to defeat the haters' bills. But on the other hand, let's not let linkbait cause us to forget the firm ground we are on either. |
