on marriage
Time for a little outrage.
Kids are dying in Iraq, the economy is slowly circling the global toilet bowl, gasoline in Texas is almost three dollars to the gallon, hurricane season is brewing again, and all the President can find to worry about is a way to write discrimination into the Constitution? A tiny minority of persons wish to share in the same legal protections and recognitions granted to their heterosexual neighbors, and to make de jure what is already de facto: their social commitment to union and family - and the President opposes this? Perhaps it should not amaze me that such would arise in a nation where a proposed 1972 amendment stating that "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex" would fail to be ratified by sufficient state legislatures...
That said, I am thrilled to see that even with a Republican majority, the Senate failed to achieve even a simple majority to continue debate on this nonsense. One can only hope that the House will follow suit and sensibly reject this atrocity later this week. Does the President really want to expend any more of his already catastrophically low political capital on this fight?