Feb 242004
 

Well, the culture wars are back on. Bush’s support of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage is the worst kind of cynical, manipulative election-year politics. It’s a bone tossed at the religious right, who will drool and gnaw on the damn thing until election day, which is the idea, natch. Bush must know the odds of such an amendment’s passage are highly unlikely, but that’s not the point. The point is to mobilize the base.
Any law forbidding a fundamental right to an entire class of citizens is un-American and repugnant on its face. It was repugnant forty years ago when interracial marriage was prohibited in parts of the South. It was repugnant a century ago when eugenics laws mandated the sterilization of thousands of people with disabilities. This is no different. in some ways, this is worse because Bush and his ilk are attempting to sully a noble and grand document–the Constitution–with their own petty agendas.
Sigh. Do you ever get the feeling that there are two separate Americas, divided by a million invisible borders?

  4 Responses to “Same Song, Different Verse”

  1. Another brick in that wall…

  2. mark: the only way to resolve this hypocrisy is to get Bush and his cornies out of office.

  3. I feel like I’m surrounded by idiots, but you put it much more eloquently.

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