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Or perhaps he's simply being responsive to his constituents here in Texas, some of whom took the time to urge him to act.

I'm proud to have him as a Senator.

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Then you're proud to have as a senator someone who compared gay marriage to marrying a box turtle.

The other commenter on this thread is right - this is classic poisoning the well.

When a politician does something right - and Cornyn's letter asks far more pointed and on-point questions than I expected - the correct response is not to bring up everything you feel the politician has ever done wrong.

My views, your views, and Cornyn's views about gay marriage aren't particularly relevant here.

The questions are great. The guy, though, is a horror. That's all I'm saying.

Geesh, and all anyone else here is saying that his political beliefs on anything else aren't relevant to anyone who is genuinely interested in helping the cause that Aaron fought for. Cornyn, for whatever his agenda might be, is trying to help. And that isn't good enough for you because he's a Republican. And that is just pathetic partisanship.

You're blasting Corynyn because you don't agree with his politics. Fine. But that has absolutely nothing to do with anything here.

Seriously? You feel that his thinly veiled threats of violence to federal judges makes him a credit to your state? You think it's representative of the popular opinion in Texas to suggest that "None of your civil liberties matter much after you're dead"? Pretty low standards, eh?

Yes, seriously.

Are you bringing up something from 2005 to kick dirt over the rightness of Senator Cornyn's current actions? Whatever could be the point of this, besides counter-productive partisanship? Can a right action be taken only by people with pasts you deem fully worthy?

I don't believe anybody is disputing that what Cornyn is doing now is good. Nobody is saying, "These questions are bad because Cornyn did bad things before." They're disputing that he is, as a whole, somebody you'd want to give your unreserved support for just because he did this one good thing.

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