Peter Barber Gallagher-Sprigg explains the Prop 8 trial in two minutes…

Hat tip to Good As You, whose headline, “The monologue that reason8s in their heads at night,” is appropriately ingenious.

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C’mon, all y’all gotta know this one — even though it was actually Evelyn Beatrice Hall (a.k.a. Stephen G Tallentyre) who wrote these words, in The Friends of Voltaire, to describe what Voltaire believed vis-à-vis freedom of expression:
I disapprove of what you say,
but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Now, most [...]

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What about all the companies that keep hiring people who’re here illegally?
They’re looking for cheap labor and to avoid regulations that protect workers, as well as all the taxes employers of legal workers must pay.
Meanwhile, lots of people seem to be attacking mostly poor, uneducated people who do things like pick fruit or dig [...]

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Cue the violins and cry me a river for all the poor, poor white bigots who’re gonna be, like, sooooooo disappointed when they discover that the Constitution — which, like the Bible, is often waved about and banged upon by people who’ve obviously never read it — applies equally to everyone and that [...]

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And homophobes everywhere are all up in arms as if this is news of pending Armageddon.
Jon Goldwater, co-CEO of Archie Comics, says it’s “about keeping the world of Archie Comics current and inclusive.”
But the homophobes, as usual, see conspiracies, and they’re not sure what it means — political correctness gone “too far,” or the standard [...]

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