Word: hotbutton
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...marriage has been a hotbutton topic this summer. The New Jersey and Massachusetts state court systems are each considering cases that could legalize same-sex unions. President Bush, Senator Tom Daschle and other politicians have all stated opposition to legalizing gay marriage. The Vatican has also launched a new initiative opposing gay marriage. What do you think? Should gay marriage be granted the same legal recognition as heterosexual marriage...
...Kaminer's point that support drops significantly when life without parole is offered as an alternative to show that Cassell's argument was naive in the extreme. Politicians' effective use of the death penalty as a symbol for getting tough on crime shows that it, like abortion, is a hotbutton issue, one to which people respond from the gut. Dershowitz's earnest attempts to separate the system of implementation from the death penalty itself is useful for academics but probably irrelevant in the political arena...
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