re: #300 Obdicut

Sure. But that’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about someone deciding between civil rights or a small short-term economic benefit. That’s what you set up. Now you’re expanding it.

They are birds of the same feather. You rank priorities. That is how it works. One is merely an end of the spectrum you are comfortable with, the other is not. Who are you to rank people’s priorities for them. My point has been from the very start that people rank these priorities for themselves with regard to their impact or perceived impact on their own situation. And that one can be in favour of gay marriage and vote Republican. That has always been my point and if you read the thread you will see that it has always been my point. The fact that you believe 10 or 15% difference in someone’s tax rate is a “small short term benefit” is irrelevant to how they perceive it or to their reality. Maybe it is the difference between their child or grandchild going to community college or Harvard.