President Bush on "gay marriage" or... Why does our President suck?

President Bush's remarks on gay marriage (07/30/2003):

"I am mindful that we're all sinners, and I caution those who may try to take the speck out of their neighbor's eye when they got a log in their own. I think it's very important for our society to respect each individual, to welcome those with good hearts, to be a welcoming country. On the other hand, that does not mean that somebody like me needs to compromise on issues such as marriage. And that's really where the issue is headed here in Washington, and that is the definition of marriage. I believe in the sanctity of marriage. I believe marriage is between a man and a woman, and I believe we ought to codify that one way or the other, and we have lawyers looking at the best way to do that."

Bush's comments about codifying a way to prohibit same-sex marriages suggested to some lawyers that he is becoming more open to the idea of a constitutional amendment to ban them.

While I was surfing the web last night, I came across this poll. This happened to come from America Online. At the time I took this snapshot, there were over 400,000 people responding to the poll. An hour later, there were close to a million who had responded, but the percentages were exactly the same numbers.

Associated with this poll was a link to a chat room where you could talk to others who had voted. I went in just to see what people thought. It was basically a room where a lot of gay bashing was taking place, and it was pretty hateful. You know, after Matthew Shepard and James Byrd were killed, so much awareness was put on hate and the negative effects it has on our country. One would think that we would have learned something from that. Not the case. I'm not even going to repeat some of the awful things people were saying should be done to gay people in our country. It doesn't merit repeating. The dialogue did show me how easily it is to get people stirred up into a frenzy and make them lash out. I also felt sorry for them for their need to defend marriage so strongly. Is marriage really that fragile?

When I mentioned my relationship and tried to make my case for why it should be honored by the state, I was told by several to read the Bible. To that, I made two points. First, I am not talking about a religious issue here. I'm talking about a STATE GOVERNMENT honoring a marriage. I was then told that the Bible applies to everything. I then said "then why do we need separation of church and state? They had no answer to that. Secondly, I suggested to them that their energies of judging gay people might be better spent addressing some of the hate being directed towards gay people in the room. I'm pretty sure the Bible makes more than a few references to that. Again, no answer.

I drew tired of trying to make my case when everyone was spouting off and not really listening. I decided to leave the room and do something else that I wanted to do. I will probably spend less time in this blog about gay marriage. Basically, it's no longer worth my energies. I get too worked up over it, and it's a losing battle. In the end, our beloved President will agree that an amendment to the constitution is the best way to "deal with" this problem and put the fags in their place. Eventually (probably after I'm dead), it will hit the Supreme Court who will rule the amendment unconstitutional and will therefore order that gay people cannot be denied the right to marry. That is my prediction. It's just too bad that so many have to go through the feeling of being second class and less worth of societal support for our relationships.

Canada is looking better and better all the time and if my partner were to get a new job in Canada, it would be hard to pass up.