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Dispatch from Ireland: Gay Marriage and Adoption
I was recently in Ireland! In fact I was around for the Pope’s visit, along with the World Meeting of Families. The Catholic Church a very long and controversial legacy in Ireland, so all of this was a big deal. I am just wise enough about Ireland to know that I know nothing, and the point of this post is not to weigh in on Irish politics. So I will refrain.
However the Pope’s visit did indeed lead to a whole lot of conversation about the Church’s legacy and some of the big political/religious/moral issues on the Irish table, as well as the American table. One was about gay couples and adoption.
Bathroom Bills Part III: How the Wedge Could Dissolve
One of the things we see frequently with wedge issues is that both sides dig in on something pretty quickly as soon as it turns up. On a national level, 2 years ago, bathrooms were a non-issue. Today, they’re divisive. One side wants an immediate and sweeping change to a long status-quo, using law; the other side wants to codify the status quo using law.
How does this gridlock get broken?
Bathroom Bills and Wedging: The Sequel
So our last post ended up stirring up far more controversy than I had imagined. People believed I was making a case for the North Carolina bathroom bill, being deliberately deceptive, or deliberately trolling for an emotional response. So obviously some lessons to be learned as a blogger, as of course the response I was looking for was “oh that’s interesting I learned something.”
I got to think about it in a lot of dead travel time over the weekend, and I want to take my best crack at my current hypothesis about what the suggests to us about the state of play in American politics.