G'day JustinO,
Here's an ABC News clip of Mitt Romney on the campaign trail talking to a gay veteran about marriage equality. The body language is interesting... the vet leans back as if intimidated by Romney, and Romney looks the man straight in the eye while answering his question. After Romney leaves, the vet feels free to become more aggressive. Read into that what you will.
Gary
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No one owns the word 'marriage'. In manufacturing, when we bring two parts together to make one, we say we 'married' these parts.
To my way of thinking, using the argument that marriage has always been between a man and a woman is like saying that black people have always been considered inferior which makes it okay to treat them as slaves and force them to the back of the bus. Or that a woman's place is in the kitchen and/or at home raising the kids, and that a woman has no right to vote. The pages of history are littered with examples of resistance to change, and this is just another page.
Intimidated?
Not really sure I agree.
The guy was evidently just out for a meal when Romney dropped in uninvited to his table, according to this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=_H9FKfECKDk So I expect he was thinking wuickly on his feet, and how to get his point across without being shut down. If he'd come across agressive too early then he'd have not been aboe to finish what he wanted to say.
In fact I reckon he did a good job making his point and since all teh media were going to always stay and ask him more when Romney departed, he would have realised he'd have the last word....and he sure did.
Full marks to the guy, he tempered his anger while Romney was present and let loose when he knew he had the ear of the press and could not be shut down by Romney and his goons.
Great stuff indeed.
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