Same-sex Marriage Supporters Inadvertently Helping The Opposition?
Christopher Frankonis of the Communique has a guest commentary in today's Portland Tribune. Frankonis alleges that same-sex marriage supporters who are criticizing the clandestine process that Multnomah County commissioners took to allow the marriages are "unintentionally doing the work" of same-sex marriage opponents:
"Commissioner Lonnie Roberts is a perfect example of why I'm irked that so many supporters of same-sex marriage are jumping onto the process-bashing bandwagon. What Roberts is doing is cynically using people's mistrust of government to hammer away at the process issue, because he knows that he'll find more political support for his efforts on that than he would if he was trying to rally people to join him in his prejudices."
Frankonis points out that county commissioners routinely work on some matters solely with other commissioners who support them. For Roberts to complain about this publicly is tantamount to "rank hypocrisy," according to Frankonis.
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