General: December 2003 Archives

One word... MORON!

I honestly don't know why this president doesn't just scrap the Constitution of the United States. When anything else gets in his way, he simply ignores it anyway.

WASHINGTON — President Bush is taking a stand on a constitutional amendment to limit marriage to one man and one woman. And the President's support may help pass a Federal Marriage Amendment when Congress comes back into session early next year.

Last month, the Massachusetts Supreme Court struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage. Now, President Bush has handed down his own verdict on the issue, saying that he would support a constitutional amendment to ban homosexuals from marriage and protect its federal definition. (story)

I think it's time that we just came out and said in the open that the Republican Party has become worthless and devoid of any value. The "compassionate conservative" doesn't know the first thing about being compassionate or accepting. The same can be said for his party. It didn't used to be this way. The Republican Party would at least listen and were reasonable. Today, they are owned by the Religious Right and if you don't believe that, just listen to this president, with all of his "faith-based" initiatives.

GOD and people's religious values have no place in government or the setting of government policy. The line separating church and state are becoming smaller and smaller.

This amendment will fail.

If it becomes part of the Constitution, it will eventually be defeated and removed from the Constitution because it goes contrary to the purpose of the Constitution. This will be an amendment to deny a certain segment of the population equal rights. That is a black eye to that great document. In the end, it will be removed and the efforts to create two different classes of citizens will have failed.

If the states fail to ratify the amendment (if it makes it that far), this President, along with all the Republicans who supported and voted for this amendment's passage, will be shown to be the homophobic bigots that they are. Again, the amendment will fail.

I say, let them go down this path. It will lead them to a place that they don't want to be.

Read more about it.

That's the headline in a Washington Post story this morning.

In the past two years, the Department of Defense has discharged 37 linguists from the Defense Language Institute for being gay ... At a time of heightened need for intelligence specialists, 37 linguists were rendered useless because of their homosexuality.

We've had "Don't ask, don't tell" for ten years now. Isn't about time that the military admitted that it isn't working? Come to think of it, the military would probably still have racially segregated platoons if civilian leaders, i.e., the President and Congress, had not ordered them to integrate.

Since our fearful leader (no that's not a typo) won't do it, it's time for Congress to make a stand. If Bill Frist and Tom DeLay are genuinely concerned about the safety and security of Americans, they will introduce legislation at the earliest possible opportunity mandating that the military accept all qualified applicants regardless of sexual orientation. Since they won't do that, it's clear that they are more frightened of gay people than they are of Osama bin Laden.

I feel sorry for them.