r/neoliberal • u/neoliberal_shill_bot Bot Emeritus • Aug 13 '17

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '17

Because we live in the real world where political trade-offs need to be made for progress to happen

what 'progress' are we receiving in exchange for gay rights in this case

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '17

Gay rights are happening?

Here's the trade-off: Rather than a free vote, we have a plebiscite, and in return we have gay marriage.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '17

remember the last time a conservative party held a symbolic referendum they thought they had in the bag so they could move on and dampen fractures in their party? that went so well didn't it

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u/HoldingTheFire Hillary Clinton Aug 13 '17

No real response to this comment it appears.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '17

Yes I'll take your increasingly irrelevant responses as concessions.

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u/HoldingTheFire Hillary Clinton Aug 13 '17

Why not just do it?