Wednesday, February 13th, 2008...6:59 pm
Marla, Will You Be My Valentine?
Karl Rove made an appearance at tony Connecticut boarding school Choate. The Hartford Courant managed to chronicle the visit, despite Rove’s objection to having media there. One Choate student, Marla Spivak, grilled Rove about his opposition to gay marriage. She took the guy apart:
Then there was Marla Spivak.
Spivak, a senior from Hamden, was one of the students invited to have lunch earlier with Rove. That left her somewhat emboldened as she stood before the crowd and asked Rove to explain how giving gay people the right to marry would endanger other people.
Rove took issue with the way the first gay marriages came about, through the Massachusetts Supreme Court. An issue as important as the definition of marriage should be resolved by a legislature or a referendum, not a court, he said.
Gay couples could gain the legal rights of married couples through legislation without actually getting married, he said.
But wouldn’t creating a separate body of legislation for gay people be creating a separate but equal system, a step back?, Spivak asked.
Rove replied with an answer about Mormons changing their views on marriage to conform with the nation’s laws.
Spivak kept pressing. “You never actually answered, how does it threaten anyone?” she asked.
Rove asked, what’s the compelling reason to throw out 5,000 years of understanding the institution of marriage as between a man and a woman?
What, Spivak countered, was the compelling reason for society to allow interracial relationships when they had once been outlawed.
Then Rove invoked the Declaration of Independence before Spivak interjected that its reference to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” seemed to support her claims.
Their verbal pingpong match tapered off after Rove brought up polygamy and Spivak acknowledged that she did not know enough about polygamy to answer. Rove later asked when she planned to run for political office.
Owned!
6 Comments
February 13th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Marla rules!
February 13th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
It’s right out of the GOP playbook though. Weave, obfuscate, misdirect…
Reminds me of former Senator Rick Santorum and his ‘man on dog’ argument.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:36 am
I applied to that school. They turned me down.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Rai-
Save that bitterness for the Texecutioners!
February 14th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Marla: Te aventaste chica! You rock!
February 14th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
¡Marla es chingona!
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