http://new.mischeathen.com/articles/2008/07/30/another-fine-scalzi-smackdown.rss en-us 40 Snark Redux <p>The funny thing is, Card says that there is no branch of government that has the right to RE-define marriage. Well maybe so. But, if that is his tact, then the question is can government define marriage at all? According to him, it should be no.</p> <p>But, as it turns out, yes, they can. The only solution for Card should be for government to stop recognizing what secular authority views as the fiction of religious marriage. Just stop recognizing it for everyone in order to keep the pure religious aspect of marriage in tact. Of course, that won't happen. Then you'd really need a ballot initiative like the "marriage nullification act." What is wrong with folks like Card is that they like the fact that government secularly recognizes their religious notions but they get pissed when they realize that those notions are going to be applied in a secularly just manner. Or, that secular law (like the US Constitution), not religious law, shall apply. So, (for those fundies who don't believe this there is a whole other bag of worms) all men are created equal with equal protection under the laws. Even the marriage laws! </p> Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:19:35 -0500 urn:uuid:3192660d-0ce7-470f-ade8-6a4cf6e66ff2 http://new.mischeathen.com/articles/2008/07/30/another-fine-scalzi-smackdown#comment-893 <p>Dang. One should never, ever, meet people who make interesting and intriguing things. As a novel, "Ender's Game" is a pre-AP English darling if for no other reason than it's a Talented and Gifted Program in Space. And what's worse is that he's not "cool fucked up" like Hemingway or Faulkner or Hammett. Why couldn't he just be a drunk or a philanderer or both?</p> Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:07:19 -0500 urn:uuid:6c638515-4b9e-48f7-800c-a2927e2b5e97 http://new.mischeathen.com/articles/2008/07/30/another-fine-scalzi-smackdown#comment-898