activists<\/span> showed support of Arizona\u2019s controversial immigration law.\u2019 Yet I also heard a story about Prop. 8. I noticed that Prop 8. was also deemed controversial. My question is, why are things that the majority of Americans support controversial, when those who oppose them are not controversial? For instance, I don\u2019t believe I\u2019ve ever heard the media refer to gay marriage as controversial, even though most Americans oppose it. Why not refer to the movements or agendas that oppose the majority of Americans as controversial, rather than the issues that most Americans support? It\u2019s a rhetorical question of course. It doesn\u2019t really take a genius to figure it out. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I heard a lead in to a story about the Arizona immigration law and the Tea Party this morning. The lead in was \u2018Tea Party activists showed support of Arizona\u2019s controversial immigration law.\u2019 Yet I also heard a story about Prop. 8. I noticed that Prop 8. was also deemed controversial. My question is, why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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