Playing bad word games with Prop 2

Dallas Morning News | Mark Davis:

"But what of a large group of people who seek to preserve state recognition solely for heterosexual marriage, but who have no quarrel with some ancillary status – call it civil unions, domestic partnerships, whatever – that would allow committed gay couples some of the basic decencies afforded their straight counterparts on issues like property rights, hospital courtesies and survivorship status? Does the language in Proposition 2 prevent that because it would be 'similar to marriage'? Good question."

And that's the last Mark Davis has to say about that "good question." Instead he spends the rest of his column criticizing some fringe Web site called savetexasmarriage.com for using misleading scare tactics to encourage a "no" vote on Prop 2. Why doesn't Mark Davis similarly condemn the scare tactics employed in DMN by Tina Benkiser (chair of the Republican Party of Texas) to encourage a "yes" vote? Perhaps because he himself is more interested in achieving a certain result at the polls than in a fair intellectual discussion of an important public policy question. A "good question" that Mark Davis doesn't talk about, once again wasting the valuable space DMN has given him on a "bad word game" of his own.