[internetworkers] parade in Chapel Hill  childers.paula at
epamail.epa.gov childers.paula at epamail.epa.gov Thu Aug 26
18:04:58 EDT 2004  Let's play "find the real reason for this
march!"  Most of those who really pay attention to politics know
that the whole gay marriage thing is being pushed more to drive
far-right-wing voter turnout in November than because the Guys
In Power actually think of marryin' queers as a Legitimate
Threat.  The Right has seen their attempt at getting a
Constitutional Amendment vote onto the November ballot in North
Carolina quashed at the legislative level.  It's become a dead
issue, no play.  Therefore, they are attempting to find any way
they possibly can to keep the whole "gay thing" in the papers
and in people's mindspace, right up until the election.  More
mindspace and airtime given to Those Damn Homos will necessarily
mean less mindspace and airtime given to real issues, like the
complete collapse of North Carolina's textiles industry, or the
Iraq boondoggle, or etc etc.