Government can go anywhere
I've been busy trying to get a new blog set up. I'm keeping this blog for writing, but I'm setting up a photo blog. I've been using this blog as a photo blog as well, but I think they will work better if I separate the two, and have links referencing each other.
But beyond all of that, there are a few things in the news that are so ironic, I just have to write about it. I'm constantly amazed at the hypocrisy of our government. With the Republicans in power, I have seen the national deficit grow out of control, our environmental needs set aside for the fast buck, and government growing faster than it ever has. The irony is that all of these things, with the possible exception of what they are doing to the environment, are things that the Republican Party has always said they were against.
They say they are against big government, yet the government has grown more in the last four years than it has in the last two decades. They say they are against governmental spending, yet we have a President who has yet to veto one spending bill. And, they say that they are for a less intrusive government. Unless of course you are a gay American where it's just fine to dictate that we are not allowed to marry our partner, or Terri Schiavo.
I feel for what her family must be going through. I'm not going to get in the middle and take one side or the other, with regards to whether her parents or her former husband is making the right decision. But I am absolutely certain that our federal government has absolutely no business being in the middle of this decision. They are interfering with something that should be decided in the family, and for what? For political gain. They love having their pictures in the paper and being so "moral". They are trying to show their conservative constituents that they do indeed value life, and they are willing to back that claim up with new legislation to value all life, even if that means trampling all over individual freedoms.
Is anyone else concerned about this?
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You are right. They are still married. Perhaps the "sanctity of marriage" only applies to the Republicans when the decisions go their way?
you are totally right - the federal government has no place here. In fact, conservatives should be appalled at the notion that the federal governement is not letting the state of Florida handle this; Florida isn't known to be all that progressive on family matters, so it's mind-boggling that these freaks in the U S Senate and House, and the President, are gettign their noses in the middle of this. And at least here, the public is seeing thru this and disagreeing with what they are doing. But I'd go one step further than you; I do take a side - on the side of the husband - I take the idea of marriage just as serious as these folks who would deny that right to you and I CLAIM they do. This couple is MARRIED, and they have vowed, and have a legal obligation to take care of each other, AND CARRY OUT EACH OTHER'S WISH as court after court has determined is the case here!