Come the evolution.Andrew Sullivan's column "The Kerry Gamble" [Against the Current, August 17] was baffling baf·fle tr.v. baf·fled, baf·fling, baf·fles 1. To frustrate or check (a person) as by confusing or perplexing; stymie. 2. To impede the force or movement of. n. 1. , to say the least. I usually disagree with Verb 1. disagree with - not be very easily digestible; "Spicy food disagrees with some people" hurt - give trouble or pain to; "This exercise will hurt your back" almost everything Mr. Sullivan says, but his assertion that voting for Senator Kerry is a gamble with respect to gay rights is truly laughable. Sullivan says that Kerry's opposition to gay marriage is more damaging than President Bush's because it is not rooted in "bigotry or prejudice or pandering to the far right." What? I would rather have Kerry at the table discussing gay fights any day over Bush. One other point that Sullivan completely ignores is that there are many well-informed and -intentioned Americans who support gay rights and equality broadly but have reservations about the specific issue of gay marriage. We have to remember that this is an evolutionary process, not a revolutionary one. Jason Morgan Jason Morgan (born Jason Morgan Quartermaine) is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera, General Hospital and its SOAPnet spin-off series, . He is one of the longest-running characters on the show, having been played by various actors since the , New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , N.Y. I've always dismissed organized religion, so I recognize that missing the signs of the apocalypse is my fault. Still, you might have given us some wanting, Andrew Sullivan realizes that Republicans really don't like fags and he's voting for a Democrat. I just don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what to say. Wait, I hear the Four Horsemen galloping up my street. Gotta run. Scott Carpenter, Oxnard, Calif. |
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