Ethics

Overly Broad Conservative Rhetoric

By Ed Brayton

One of the things that drives me crazy about conservative arguments on judicial matters is how they make these incredibly broad arguments that they refuse to apply consistently. Dennis Prager offers a textbook example:

Next to the presidential election, California Proposition 8 is the most important vote in America.

It will determine the definition of marriage for the largest state in America, and it will determine whether judges or society will decide on social-moral issues.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 29, 2008 (boomark / email).