National Whack A Gay Day
WASHINGTON Jun 5, 2006 (AP) -- President Bush and congressional Republicans are aiming the political spotlight this week on efforts to ban gay marriage, with events at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue all for a constitutional amendment with scant chance of passage but wide appeal among social conservatives. [...]
“A vote for this amendment is a vote for bigotry pure and simple,” said Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, where the state Supreme Court legalized gay marriages in 2003.
Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco, which in 2004 began issuing marriage licenses to gay couples, on Monday denounced Bush’s move as predictable and “stale rhetoric” aimed at rallying conservatives for this year’s midterm elections.
“It’s politics. It’s pandering and it’s placating a core constituency, the evangelicals,” Newsom said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” (source)
I’m told that this amendment has a snowballs chance in hell of passing, so I’m not really worried about it. I’m more disgusted than anything else. They want to leave this issue to the states to form “civil unions”, or not (preferably, give us no recognition what so ever).
The real issue is, therefore, if they really feel that way, perhaps we should embrace the notion that separate but equal is what our country should be about. Perhaps we should revisit...
blacks joining the military
and after we let blacks into the military, if it was a good idea that they were finally allowed to integrated into the “white” units because it was feared that it would have a negative effect on “unit cohesion” (sound familiar?)
the right of women to vote
Brown vs. Board of Education
interracial marriage (Loving vs. Virginia)
and of course, abortion
and while we’re at it, hell, why not slavery? At the time, we would have kept that by a popular vote!
And no, I’m not talking out of both sides of my mouth here. When I said I am no longer going to fight them on this issue, I meant that. I just hate hypocrisy and that is what I’m trying to address.
And, I find it ironic and sad that our President has picked this day to use his office to advance bigotry. On June 5, 1981, twenty-five years ago today, U.S. public health officials reported the first known cases of a disease that would come to be called AIDS.
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