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If you aren't sure where to look for a particular feature or piece of display, try the "Search Admin Tools" link in the admin tools menu.
"I can deal with a world that has same-sex marriage."
- GOP former Attorney General Mike COX, a self-described social conservative who helped lead the charge for Michigan's same-sex marriage ban, acknowledging his shift on the issue.
Cox: I'm Not Against Gay Marriage
"Mike COX, the former Republican Attorney General who led the legal charge to uphold the state's constitutional ban on gay marriage, told MIRS today he's had a change of heart and could support legislative same-sex marriage if Prop 2 of 2004 were not in place."
Congratulations, Mike. You're lucky to have someone in your life as dense as Laura, who will still accept you as having any credibility.
Twitter is a good thing. All who use that social media eventually reveal who they truly are in 140 characters or less. Take for example this doozy about "know nothings" from Dennis Lennox.
Well, it doesn't take much looking to source who the disgraced man-child from Cheboygan, is thankful to for gifting the misogynistic Left fodder against Conservatives.
Black, female, young, Conservative, Republican, and very much like Alan Keyes in 2004, intelligently opposes the long standing homophile agenda to change the definition of marriage = BIGOT
It doesn't matter anymore if one is Kara, Dennis Prager, Alan Keyes, or Dave Agema, because the Progressive bleat to destroy family, and Natural Law must commence for us to be wards of the state owned collective. That's how the Left rolls.
Some time throughout our modern day busy with big box store sponsored parades, multiple football games on HDTV, and readying for the turkey feast, remember to take a moment to give thanks to Him.