What if SC bloggers actually talked among themselves?

Wesley Donehue graciously responds to my comments on his post about Prayer Day down in Columbia:

Forgot to comment about the religious aspect of your post. 

I think you completely misread my post. While I believe the Republican platform contains more of what we would call "Christian values" I don't believe any party has the market cornered on morality. We've seen our Republican leaders in Washington acting as immoral as the Democrats. All our leaders need prayers...as do most South Carolinians during this tough economic crisis.

While I appreciate the comment, in my prior life I would have had to object to the answer as unresponsive.


That Republicans can be found acting as "immorally" as Democrats not only presupposes that it is more unexpected when it occurs on the GOP side of the aisle, but it says nothing about the Republican  Party's positions on gay rights, which was my point. While I fully agree with Wes that "all our leaders need prayers...as do most South Carolinians during this tough economic crisis," it's disingenuous to dodge my main point, which was that we both know what kind of prayers are going to be offered, and upon whom they are going to be bestowed, and in aid of what causes, and, in neither case, will any of the beneficiaries be any South Carolinian who is gay, or any legislator inclined to support gay rights legislation.


All of which is to say, the Preachers' Day  in Columbia is a benefit mostly to people like Mr Donehue, and rather less so to those whom his branch of the church and party consider a lesser class of beings. If human at all.


But we do appreciate the response. The weirdest thing about the SC blogdom is how the big players act like no one exists but them, and they just talk past each other. Like Waldo's other favorite SC conservative, Earl Capps, at least you get some push back. That's how learning happens on both sides of the issue.


So whaddya say, Mr. Donehue? Let's talk. Here, in front of God and everybody. If you're really all over the GOP v2:


1. how do gay conservatives fit into the SC GOP?


2. partisan politics aside, what legal rights- state and federal- am I am entitled to that you and your wife take for granted? And which ones am I not entitled to, and why?


3. Bonus question: why are SC Republicans so scared of gay people?


Cheers, Waldo.