I listened to NPR's The Connection this morning and its roundtable of US religious leaders on the place of Christian religious belief in the present political debate on same-sex marriage. One very interesting aspect is how each person reaches back to a different set of mythmakers, mid-1900s civil rights, mid-1800s abolishionists, late-1700s revolutionary founding fathers or early 1600's pilgrims. Each gives a moral Christian authority, Bible-based, which serves a different argument. Faskinatin'.

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NYCO - February 17, 2005 1:48 PM
<i>mid-1800s abolishionists</i>
Obviously, these were the non-Temperance faction of abolitionists...
Alan - February 17, 2005 3:07 PM
Your US constitutional fun making of me is over my head. Wasn't an "abolishionist" an anti-slavery advocate? I am a simp. Help me with this, NYCO.
NYCO - February 17, 2005 3:20 PM
I've heard of abolitionists, but not abolishionists. Perhaps a horse of a different colour?
Alan - February 17, 2005 3:24 PM
AHHHH. I used Guugle to make sure I have a certain amount of mishspellink around here.