If You Blog Down With Dogs...
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Eugene Volokh is "delighted" that Maggie Gallagher is guest-blogging at his site to debate same-sex marriage.
I'm "delighted" that I de-blogrolled him well over a year ago. It saves me having to do it now.
Gallagher, a notoriously vicious anti-gay bigot, is not a constitutional law scholar (in fact she's not even an attorney) and has nothing jurisprudential to bring to any debate on same-sex marriage. This "debate" will really be about the "pros and cons" of anti-gay bigotry, rationalized as a legal debate on same-sex marriage.
Perhaps next Volokh will invite some of those Ohio Nazis to guest-blog to discuss the "pros and cons" of anti-Semitism and rationalize it as a debate on the heckler's veto.
POST SCRIPT: Judging from the various independent analyses, it appears fairly obvious that I was right after all (invalid "Godwin's Law" histrionics notwithstanding). Perhaps the better heuristic would have Occam's Razor: Rather than rationalizing Gallagher's self-humiliating performance as the work of a brilliant but compository-writing-challenged "expert" on marriage, perhaps the easier explanation was the correct one, namely that Gallagher is simply an anti-gay bigot trying to defend an indefensible position.
I'm "delighted" that I de-blogrolled him well over a year ago. It saves me having to do it now.
Gallagher, a notoriously vicious anti-gay bigot, is not a constitutional law scholar (in fact she's not even an attorney) and has nothing jurisprudential to bring to any debate on same-sex marriage. This "debate" will really be about the "pros and cons" of anti-gay bigotry, rationalized as a legal debate on same-sex marriage.
Perhaps next Volokh will invite some of those Ohio Nazis to guest-blog to discuss the "pros and cons" of anti-Semitism and rationalize it as a debate on the heckler's veto.
POST SCRIPT: Judging from the various independent analyses, it appears fairly obvious that I was right after all (invalid "Godwin's Law" histrionics notwithstanding). Perhaps the better heuristic would have Occam's Razor: Rather than rationalizing Gallagher's self-humiliating performance as the work of a brilliant but compository-writing-challenged "expert" on marriage, perhaps the easier explanation was the correct one, namely that Gallagher is simply an anti-gay bigot trying to defend an indefensible position.
Posted by KipEsquire on
17 October 2005
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