Steve Shaw

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• Antinous / Moderator commented on Radley Balko: A Few Questions for Barack Obama
  The issue for me, Ken, is that someone who writes gay 'parents' would probably have written black 'people' in 1860....
• Teresa Nielsen Hayden commented on Radley Balko: A Few Questions for Barack Obama
  Oh, for pete's sake. You mean I went to all that trouble to write a long comment yesterday in this thread, and it never posted? I'm having a bad, bad day....
• Takuan commented on Radley Balko: A Few Questions for Barack Obama
  nope Ken: you're still wrong, it's all about context: #33 posted by Ken Hansen , July 28, 2008 7:10 PM RE: #9 posted by Takuan: The way things work, Obama will HAVE to lie and cheat his way IN. All you can do is pray he will be better than the others AFTER he gets in. What a tremendous rationalization... Is that really a "Change you can believe in"? no rationalizing there, just observation....
• Takuan commented on Radley Balko: A Few Questions for Barack Obama
  http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_vows_to_reverse_executive_orders_0729.html...
• GregLondon commented on Radley Balko: A Few Questions for Barack Obama
  the reason I put the word "parent" in quotes is simple - until you have a child, you aren't a parent. Oy. What you said was not that, but this: Adoption of orphans by gay "parents" is a states rights issue And defending the use of scare quotes based on your own internal assumptions doesn't fly. If you want to argue from a strictly biological point of view, being gay doesn't mean you can't get pregnant. But you assume no one who is gay and adopting couldn't possibly already have children. Would you equally assume that a hetero couple who...