As I hope you can tell, my Comment posts here and over at HP have been respectful, yet sarcastic. They have been pointed and specific, and I did not manipulate or distort any comments in response.

My detractors have exemplified shrill, hysterical bile and obviously have an Achilles heel when it comes to race and their political beliefs.

I’m sorry if I have contributed to such unpleasant exchanges involving your blog. You see, I write for an online political commentary site and engage such opinions/attitudes from the Right, on a consistent basis. Therefore, I have a knack for hitting them in just the right spot.

Again, I apologize.

Also, I don’t believe that immigration can truly be broken down along political lines. It’s alot like the patriot act, where you have people on both sides of the aisle for/against it.My family, for example, were all given citizenship because of Reagan. And George W. Bush is the first President to offer some form of workers program. You can quibble about the details, and the overall positive/negative effect this may have, but its a fact that only until Bush was something like that given national attention.

In addition, my support for immigration comes from the economic support of it, and the belief that economically speaking, it is a good thing.

I have also stated publically that I don’t support a constitutional ban on gay marriage, even though I am against gay marriage. So there are issues that I disagree from the conservative viewpoint, even when I personally agree with the underlying conclusion.

As for the court rulings on gay marriage. I am not going to address that for the simple reason that I know very little about it(I am an Engineer by trade, not a lawyer). I do know that the ruling was not as clear cut as you seem to imply. The Mass court itself split on a 4-3 ruling, so even the liberal state of Mass(of which I would assume has liberal judges) couldn’t rule unanimously in favor of such a revolutionary ruling.

From your introduction, I find it telling and ironic that you are in lockstep with basic Conservative viewpoints, except when it comes to having an impact on you personally (Immigration).

Just a heads up also, every Conservative I’ve read arguing their opposition to Gay Marriage, without fail decide not to even address the precedent or Constitutional provisions that are the basis for the Massachusetts Supreme Court majority opinion.

With you being a self-described strict ‘Constitutionality’, I trust you will convincingly refute the opinions of these so-called ‘activist judges’, who collectively have 100+ more years of jurisprudence experience than you.

Weighing in on the gay marriage issue, I am strongly against gay marriage. Gay marriage is an oxymoron. However, I tentatively support the concept of civil unions. Primarily because in some cases it may benefit young children who could otherwise not have access to health benefits.

No overstepping at all – I was hoping you’d feel comfortable enough to make the announcement.

It seems like comments are starting to die down on our abortion discussion. I do want to say though, that those comment threads will stay open while we discuss other issues. So if a new thought or argument comes to you regarding abortion while we’re talking about gay marriage or economics, please post it and we’ll keep that conversation going as much as possible. Remember, we’re not looking for solutions, but rather to show the various arguments of each side the best we can and let readers (now and in the future) make up their own minds.

DD,

Your comments are appreciated. Let’s save all comments regarding gay marriage for after HispanicPundit’s post though. As more and more users start to comment it seems like our level of respectfulness and focused conversation is detiorating a bit. In posts that deal with actual issues, I’m going to try to keep the conversation as respectful and focused as possible.

Seyd,

I totally agree with you man. I think this conversation is going to be very interesting and that HP is going to bring up some points many of us had not yet thought of.