Hey Justin … Wow I’m strangely honored that you wrote that great piece about my snub & marginalization over at Alas A Blog..
I have found argument with homosexuals themselves to bear little fruit.
(I have real sympathy – but they are to emotionally involved with the whole subject to be more than advocates- its all argument & no discussion)

On A brighter note…
I posted this over at Galios, I think its really good.. I hope you will post It.
Feel free to tinker with it if you wish..or use it, as it is..
Just give me – Fitz- co-authorship
I think it really gets the point across (expand on it all you want – if you can improve it)
(it Follows)

Oh –hey, I’m against divorce, really truly against it. Always have been.
I’m also against Illegitimacy, fornication, co-habitation and so-on.
Me and my political side have a hard time getting our case heard – the entire family values agenda is hard to legislate. (because you cant just come in and tell people how to live their lives) This requires social consensus. You need cultural institutions like church’s, universities, and the popular press to foster your agenda. With the exception of the first we have little support in the others. (unlike some groups)

I have an idea though – I will get a single State Court to declare divorce unconstitutional.
I know this sounds ridiculous but (I have some clever law school professors friends) and lot of these things sound ridiculous initially, until you acclimate people to the idea. (it helps to have friends in the press at this point who paint it as a terrific, progressive idea)
So, we outlaw divorce – BAAM- it explodes on the national scene. People know me and my activist {socially conservative} judges are capable of foisting this on the entire nation. So people get really excited and adopt laws that keep it the divorce law the way its always been. However, I have now started a huge national conversation on the subject! The few states were I have influence in the legislature cut deals with me and my lobby groups. Basically they are not interested in banning divorce outright – but –my plight looks so sympathetic (lonely children and spurred fathers kept from any sense of intimacy with their children ect. dominate the emotional side of the debate) So these legislatures agree to tighten divorce law significantly. In an attempt to avoid counter any rulings that ban divorce completely. At the same time they also reassert explicitly that divorce is still legal in the writing of these laws. (its like extortion…see)
So basically I can’t loose at this point… No matter what happens, I move my ball down my court…
In the meantime.. The one State were I made divorce illegal, well I poor all my resources into it. (I’ve been doing this for years…setting it up,) Now, I’m not sure If I should let the people vote in that State or not. If I put enough pressure on the legislature –its already pretty sympathetic – and we have lots of disposable income for PAC money.
If I let the people vote on the issue – they may vote my proposal down.
I have lots of fancy poll’s that show they won’t; but hell, you can get a poll to show anything.
So maybe I should just sit on it…and not let a vote take place.
See I have picked this State expressly because it has an amendment process that takes years. You have to jump through a lot of hoops in order to undue what I got the Courts to do. People will acclimate themselves to a situation even if they don’t like it.
But don’t you see the genius of the plan….
No matter what, I move my ball down my field.
Even if I loose, I just paint my self and my group (divorcee’s & children of divorce) as the victims of an ugly mob.
It ingenious really.
The court is a pretty “conservative” court but I’m still having a hard time getting five of them to go along..
{I already tried it in two other states – but the people rose up and overturned it)
But if I can pull it off – it will be a HUGE coup for my cause.
It’s a great plan, I mean what a P.R. blitz for my formerly tiny and little known agenda.!
I call the plan ….SUPTERFUGE..

only problem is…my Judges wont break the law to help me get my ball rolling..
See….they are decent law abiding people and reasonable men.
Even with the sympathy I have with some of them…they just won’t call a eminently rational argument….irrational…
They just aren’t that radical for a cause.
I guess they respect the proper workings of democracy too much.