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David Galitz

St. Anthony, MN
Commenter for
5 years 10 weeks

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Posted on 10/29/12 at 11:04 am in response to Strib endorses Ellison, Cravaack, Kline

You're making a false assumption that marriage rights are a zero sum game.

The supposed benefits to children are not harmed by the existence of same sex marriage anymore than they are by the existence of infertile or childless by choice couples of the opposite gender.

Posted on 10/26/12 at 11:10 am in response to Marriage ad unfairly links amendment to school curriculum issue

“It puts parents and pastors in a difficult situation when they teach the truth of marriage at home and in church, but then their kids are taught something entirely different at school. This undermines parental rights and causes confusion for children."

One problem with this line of argument is that it applies to anything: evolution? Blood transfusions? Inter-racial or inter-faith marriages? The list is endless.

If your values are really that fragile, perhaps you should be home...

Posted on 10/26/12 at 10:33 am in response to Minnesota for Marriage ad borrows dubious claims from other states' campaigns

What does her political party affiliation (if any) have to do with this?

When they voted on this (and on the voter restriction amendment) theMNGOP insisted this was non-partisan.

Posted on 10/23/12 at 10:32 am in response to The moral arc and the marriage amendment

Given the ubiquity here of the other Thomas Swift, I'm surprised Minnpost didn't include some kind of disclaimer.

This Tom Swift is the author of "Chief Bender's Burden," (about the Minesotan American Indian hall of Fame pitcher).

I'm sure that Thomas Swift has given Tom no small amount of heartburn.

Posted on 10/19/12 at 03:56 pm in response to An open letter to Zygi Wilf: Time for you to help us

There are no striking musicians. They've been locked out by management.

Posted on 10/19/12 at 09:54 am in response to Newsweek R.I.P.

But I doubt we agree on which half they were alienating.

I dropped my subscription after they hired the conservative hack Niall Ferguson.

(and of course, the photoshopped "Diana at 50" cover story really had no political leanings. It was just horrid)

Posted on 10/17/12 at 04:20 pm in response to Brodkorb: Turnout, not values, is aim of marriage amendment

Brodkorb didn't say anything we didn't already know, and wasn't said by us at the time of the legislative vote.

Posted on 10/18/12 at 09:58 am in response to Why the Constitution’s Framers didn’t want us to directly elect the president

And the Republican party would be virtually extinct without the Southern Racist White vote, which admittedly, until Johnson signed the Civil Rights act, largely voted Democratic (note the proper form of the name). Although I will aver that, since Nixon, it is the Republicans that more actively pander to them.

So it's a wash, I guess.

Posted on 10/17/12 at 04:22 pm in response to Cravaack and Nolan hold little back

for the umpteenth time, you have no evidence to back up your claim.

Posted on 10/16/12 at 01:24 pm in response to Many Christians do not see same-sex marriage as an issue of 'fairness'

A profound ignorance of evolution and natural selection.

First, it assumes homosexuality is, in fact "harmful to a species as a whole," which is not proven at all.

The demonstrated existence of same sex pairings among numerous extant species would suggest it is not.

Second, even if it WERE proven, 1) biological history is full of examples of evolutionary dead ends, and 2) the genetic history of every species has examples of deleterious traits that persist in its genome...