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"Now having played a hand they did not need to, those opposed to gay marriage have lost the issue."

My thoughts exactly, conservatives have played right into the democrat’s hand, which incidentally is being well orchestrated.

So your argument is that the best course of action would have been to do nothing, to sit back and let these people destroy whatever shreds of decency, morality and sanity we have left in this state (and soon the country). For a conservative, that is a bad attitude. For a "conservative" on a conservative activists' forum, that is a pathetic willingness to accept failure without even trying.

For God's sake, the groups who have launched legal action to stop these marriages are only appealing to existing law! If you can't reasonably expect existing law to be enforced, except when it suits the agenda of the officials, then you no longer have a free society. It may yet be possible to correct these kinds of tyrannical injustices within our legal system, basically by getting the corrupt officials out of office. I hope so. But there are basically two choices left to real Americans with a spine: either restore true representative government by peaceful means, or restore it by whichever option is left to you. Acceptance of defeat and failure is not an option.

So your argument is that the best course of action would have been to do nothing, to sit back and let these people destroy whatever shreds of decency, morality and sanity we have left in this state (and soon the country). For a conservative, that is a bad attitude. For a "conservative" on a conservative activists' forum, that is a pathetic willingness to accept failure without even trying.

Exactly.

"It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph"

BUMP to you both!

I'm seeing an altogether dismaying (to say nothing of stomach-wrenching) postings hereabouts of late, from (ostensible) conservatives braying and bleating, in essence: "...like, whatever turns them on, dude," and "... by standing up for moral principles, we're playing right into the 'Rats' hands!," and similarly anti-conservative piffle.

Question: when, exactly, did Li'l Andy Sullivan sign up at Free Republic, and under how many screen IDs...?

"So your argument is that the best course of action would have been to do nothing, to sit back and let these people destroy whatever shreds of decency, morality"

No, my argument was to not go into reactive mode and force this issue into center stage. By doing so we are allowing the opposistion to frame the arguments on their terms.