"Christ was real specific on the issue of marriage, but otherwise silent on the issue of homosexuality -- to the extent that we know anything that he said".
"Attitudes will become more based on partisanship and less on the specifics of the issues," he said, adding that "opinions about Iraq show a far larger partisan divide than for any war in the modern era".
But beyond the specifics of this issue, the campaign has also turned into a fascinating TV and social media PR battle — that Partovi is splicing himself into the middle of.
Marriage equality researcher from the University of Queensland, Sharon Dane, has questioned that result "because the question was not specific to the issue of allowing same-sex couples to marry".
Once Ms. Rich did the six interviews with Ms. Orth, however, Mr. Rubenstein said he decided to turn public-relations lemons into television-ready lemonade -- as long as she promised not to discuss specifics of the pardon issue.
"What's good for the American people is to have an adult, intelligent discussion of the specifics of these issues," Mr. Gore said.
As such, the forum potentially does much more than improve the public's general and specific knowledge of the issue at hand: it provides a forum of cooperation and deliberation that helps engender trust and respect among participants.
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