Cartoon in a coalmine

[avram]

Mike Luckovitch sums up the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment in one simple, effective image.

Andrew Sullivan’s been passing on email he’s been getting on the FMA matter. Here’s an interesting thought:

Jews used to be the canary people. Jews still play that role but today, even more so, that role is played by gays. You can judge a party or a leader by how he treats this group, the one group it is still safe to hate in America.

Comments

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

Note: Items 1 and 2 are true, on average, as they are for many other groups. (At least for unclosetted gay Americans; no one knows about closeted.)

[cheshyre]

Actually, I believe that's an urban legend based upon an upscale gay magazine's demographic survey of their readership that was geared towards trying to attract advertisers.

Other more reliable evidence including census data do not support any such difference.

[Oh, and look! while I was trying to find the source of that myth, I came across a list of similarities between anti-Jewish & anti-gay rhetoric...]

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

I would have appreciated a reference, it took me an hour of Google searching to find any solid evidence one way or another.

Anyway, I finally found Badgett's paper. Badgett doesn't provide as much information as he should (I'd like to see a more detailed description of his model), but it looks basically sound. So I'll concede the argument.

[cheshyre]

I would have appreciated a reference, it took me an hour of Google searching...
Sorry. I'm normally insanely rigorous about providing sources (to the point that I sometimes take longer to find authorities to reference than the actual writing) but I posted this before leaving for work and was under a time crunch.
In the future, if you feel I haven't supported my arguments sufficiently, you're free to challenge me to back them up. [I believe burden of proof generally falls upon the person making the claim.]

Sorry for any inconvenience.

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

No problem. Thanks for correcting my misapprehensions.