Haggard & Last Night's Election

Don't forget why Mike Jones' outed his sexual relationship with Ted Haggard.

Numerous times his stated reason was to influence the two ballot initiatives in Colorado, one that would define marriage as a union between one man and one woman, and another one giving domestic partnership benefits to gay couples.

In the end, Mike Jones' "confession" did not influence either initiative, as the marriage definition passed and the benefits proposition failed. Click here to read the full story.

If you do read the story, you have to love the bias at the end with the heart-wrenching pro-homosexual quote appearing just before ending with the cold anti-gay quote.

One thing, the pro-gay quote is "I just believe we should have the same rights as everyone else. What it's called isn't important to me." The tactic: substitute partnerships for marriage while keeping vague the unspoken idea that everyone assumes, namely, that partnerships is something less than marriage, when in reality they're exactly the same. Giving gays and lesbians the right to marry, or giving them domestic partnerships is essentially the same thing only with two different names.

Now, I don't really care if you want to lobby and picket and fight and seek to persuade the public for either one or both of those things. It's a democracy. We seek to sway public opinion to our points of view to enshrine our points of view into law. That's what we do. Only be honest about it. Don't trick people.