Patrick McIlheran Believes Canada's Laws Govern US

Patrick McIlheran is the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel version of our very own Katherin Kersten. A token consevative who couldn't argue his way out of a paper bag. Today, he takes on the Wisconsin constitutional amendment to ban civil unions and same-sex marriage, and I think he's cheating off Katherin Kertsen. He spews the same Canada equals the United States crap that Kersten did a few weeks ago, and that Chuck Darrell did last week:

"A Catholic bishop in Alberta was after he wrote a letter urging Catholics to oppose same-sex marriage. Critics hauled him before the human rights commission. Elsewhere in Canada, which legalized same-sex marriage last summer, a group was sued when it balked at renting its hall to a couple of lesbians. Recall that in Wisconsin you can't turn down tenants for living in sin; the criminalization of dissent is not distant."

Here's why that's crap.

"The campaign for gay marriage is all about denying anyone the ability to disagree. If we are told by legislators or courts to permit same-sex marriage, then any disagreement we might have with it can have no effect on what we do or say. The law will have told us that we must regard the couple as married, even if we think that's nonsense." (My emphasis)

Well, I don't think it's so much a campaign for gay marriage as it is a campaign to keep an amendment out of the Wisconsin constitution. And there's nothing that stifles debate more than having anti-gay words enshrined in a constitution! After it's there, it stays there for a long time, if not forever.

I think a lot of laws are nonsense. I think making marijuana illegal is nonsense. Should we put decriminalization of marijuana in the constitution? I think that dependence on foreign oil is detrimental to national security. I propose we pass an amendment to make gas mileage minimums mandatory. See, it starts to sound kinda silly.

Why don't the Patrick McIlheran's and the Katherine Kersten's just put it out there: they don't like gays and produce a a list of reasons why, and they think their religion is superior to everyone elses and should be law. Then they'd have arguments that make sense. But wait, then that nasty 'bigot' word might get thrown around some more.