Things I Never Thought I'd Hear Part 521
Nov. 2nd, 2008 11:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorkaPro-Obama bluegrass. I kid you not.
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It seems to me as if the McCain campaign is running a Discworld play. They're trying to change the narrative, rather than the reality on the ground, in the belief that changing the story will affect reality for them. Now, I'm a postmodernist and a witch; I have a certain amount of sympathy for the idea that the meaning does affect the expression, and changing the former can change the latter. But you have to actually do the work on the material plane, too. You can do all the prosperity spells you want, but if you don't show up to work, you still won't get paid.
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Does anyone else think it's ironic that the LDS church is one of the primary forces pushing Prop 8 in California so hard? Or are they figuring this is karmic payback, so to speak? The government made them give up their religious beliefs about plural marriage to become a state, so they're angry that anyone else gets to have a definition of marriage that might include two women? It's especially piquant when the NeoPentcostal fundies start arguing that gay marriage is morally equivalent to polygamy. (Just once, when one of them does that, I want someone to ask them on camera if that means that they think the Biblical patriarchs and kings were sinners.)
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It seems to me as if the McCain campaign is running a Discworld play. They're trying to change the narrative, rather than the reality on the ground, in the belief that changing the story will affect reality for them. Now, I'm a postmodernist and a witch; I have a certain amount of sympathy for the idea that the meaning does affect the expression, and changing the former can change the latter. But you have to actually do the work on the material plane, too. You can do all the prosperity spells you want, but if you don't show up to work, you still won't get paid.
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Does anyone else think it's ironic that the LDS church is one of the primary forces pushing Prop 8 in California so hard? Or are they figuring this is karmic payback, so to speak? The government made them give up their religious beliefs about plural marriage to become a state, so they're angry that anyone else gets to have a definition of marriage that might include two women? It's especially piquant when the NeoPentcostal fundies start arguing that gay marriage is morally equivalent to polygamy. (Just once, when one of them does that, I want someone to ask them on camera if that means that they think the Biblical patriarchs and kings were sinners.)
