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Donald Rumsfeld Isn't Sure, But Marriage Equality Might Lead to Polygamy
http://www.advocate.com/politics/military/2013/05/22/donald-rumsfeld-isnt-sure-says-marriage-equality-might-lead-polygamy
During this book tour, the former Defense secretary has joked that he's so often wrong it no longer makes him blush.
Although former Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld argues that repealing "don't ask, don't tell" made sense, he has some slippery-slope reasoning on why marriage equality in the military or elsewhere is a mistake.
Rumsfeld did not preside over repeal of DADT on his watch, even while facing shortages of Arabic translators, and the Log Cabin Republicans ultimately sued him to repeal the policy. But Rumsfeld said during an interview online with Larry King that we've known gays and lesbians have been in the military for a long time, so open service seemed a logical next step just one taken after he left.
On marriage equality, the famously noncommittal leader (at least whenever responding to a question in public) conceded, "The Rumsfeld rule here is, I don't know." That's some sort of allusion to his new book, Rumsfeld Rules. But he simultaneously offered a slippery-slope argument against marriage equality, suggesting it might lead to polygamy.
http://www.advocate.com/politics/military/2013/05/22/donald-rumsfeld-isnt-sure-says-marriage-equality-might-lead-polygamy
Is there prison in the afterlife? Would he finally get justice by being dumped there after his sorry ass off this planet?
TygrBright
(20,762 posts)Downwinder
(12,869 posts)Won't have to get a divorce to marry your mistress.
MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)Just look forward, the country was in no mood for a politically motivated persecution of Bush officials, and besides bipartisanship is all the rage, or was...
Initech
(100,081 posts)I'm no expert in debating but wouldn't that mean the other side is completely full of shit?
And besides, what the hell is this asshole doing giving a book tour? He and the rest of the BFEE war criminals should be answering to the Hague.
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)Old Union Guy
(738 posts)... polygamy has a much bigger constituency.