Ethics

Rove Gets Divorced. Again.

By Ed Brayton

Yet another fevered defender of "traditional marriage" gets divorced, for the second time in this case. And Karl Rove isn't just your run of the mill religious righter (in fact, he's not religious at all), he's much worse - he's the guy who practically invented the concept of using same-sex marriage as a fear-laden motivator to get the religious right to the polls to help his boss get reelected in 2004.

It was Rove who worked so hard to get as many anti-gay marriage referenda on the ballots in as many states as possible in 2004 in order to push the right emotional buttons and get the anti-gay right to the polls, knowing that they would then also vote for Bush and keep him in office. It was Rove who set the political agenda of speaking in hushed, reverent tones about the "sanctity" of marriage. And now he's getting divorced. Again.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 30, 2009 (boomark / email).