Missing the point
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Sometimes I get baffled by quotes I see, today is one of those times. How exactly can someone say this and not see stupid staring back at them?
The National Organization for Marriage is using the voice and image of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., in a new ad that urges Minnesota voters to support gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, who wants a public vote against marriage equality. According to The Minnesota Independent, NOM president Brian Brown said in a statement Thursday, “We want the voters of Minnesota to know the facts about their rights and where the candidates stand on marriage. Just as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., fought for the civil rights of Americans, we echo his words to give people the ballot and let the people vote!”
Stolen from here[^] There has to be some point of failure between brain and reality, or perhaps just brain and mouth involved here. Is it just that he doesn't grasp that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was fighting against a society which had voted? A society that decided since he was part of a minority democracy said he could have his rights restricted, removed or other wise trampled because the majority believed in some artificial social barrier. Or am I the one missing something? Oh, and FB deserves half credit for this topic other than GW as he reminded me I needed to go over the site this came from.