Prejudice in Politics?

A Constitutional Amendment To Define Marriage? Talk about the dumbing down of America.

Give me a frigging break! Can we just round up all of the homophobic elected officials NOW and give them their own part of the country? Sort of like a Reservation or Detention Camp? You know, those atrocities this country perpetrated upon Native Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and Japanese and Italian Americans during World War II?

Why not take the theory of the Indian Reservation and Detention Camps and apply it here to those who are homophobic and think other fun stuff like women have no right to decide what to do with their own bodies? Let's round 'em all up and lock them behind a big barbed wire fence. Pat Robertson can be the Warden (only he has to live there too).

First of all I have to thank Karl here at Philly Future for inspiring me. (read Karl's take if you haven't).

So I read the text of the President's Radio Address as well. And got chills. Serious, major chills.

I have to ask, how is someone who is supposed to be the leader of the most independent country in the world so intolerant of others? So afraid of something different?

Now look, I'm totally strait, a practicing heterosexual. But I have to ask, why is it such a big deal to so many people with so many little minds that a homosexual might wish to commit to the same lifestyle a hetero wants? A committed relationship?

Is it really, truly hurting anyone? Or is it just an irrational fear of the unknown? I think this is wrong. It is not going to hurt me personally if one of my gay friends has a commitment ceremony.....I can just attend and be happy for the couple....

Who cares. If people love each other, who is anyone to judge? It's not my lifestyle choice, but allowing same sex marriages isn't going to affect my life drastically, either. Sheesh, it should actually make lawyers happy - more divorce business if the marriages don't last....sorry....couldn't resist...

With all the really bad things out there like poverty, substance abuse, domestic abuse, murder, rape, war, and so on, why the segway to something that is just solidifying a prejudice? I am tired of Faux Christians. Those who are truly Christian are tolerent. Not ignorant. Rant over, and here’s an excerpt and link to Monsters and Critics from the UK (because they say it so well):

Bush to boost marriage amendment

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) -- U.S. President George W. Bush says he supports a constitutional amendment on marriage because 'democracy, not court orders,' should decide such issues.

Bush said in his Saturday radio address that he would meet Monday with supporters of a constitutional ban on same-gender marriage, ahead of U.S. Senate debate on an amendment that would define marriage as a 'union of a man and a woman.'

He said states would be free to allow for other 'legal arrangements' because 'people have the right to choose how they live their lives.'

'Marriage is the most enduring and important human institution,' Bush said, 'honored and encouraged in all cultures and by every religious faith.'

However, he said the institution is being eroded by rulings issued by what he called 'activists judges.'

.....'Government, by recognizing and protecting marriage, serves the interests of all,' Bush said.

AND.....From The American Chronicle/Robert Paul Reyes:

President George W. Bush Backs Federal Marriage Amendment

With his approval ratings in the gutter President George W. Bush is the epitome of a sitting duck. If the Democrats gain control of the Senate or the House in the midterm elections Bush will be a dead duck.

When Republicans are in trouble they used to play the race card, now they play the "homosexual peril" card.

The Great Uniter backed a divisive resolution to amend the Constitution to narrowly define marriage as a union between a man and a woman, even though the notion has as a snowball's chance of being passed in the Senate.

The amendment would prohibit states from recognizing same-sex marriages. To become law, the proposal would need two-thirds support in the Senate and House, and then would have to be ratified by at least 38 state legislatures.

An initiative that declares that the earth is flat would have a better chance of becoming law, if the Christian fundamentalist crazies have their way, perhaps that's next on their agenda.

This is a politically expedient way for Dubya to appeal to the religious right -- an integral part of the Republican coalition.

With so many important issues like immigration, terrorism and the Iraq war facing our nation, it's a crying shame that the world's greatest deliberating body is wasting time on this divisive issue.

...The Senate should quickly dispose of this hateful proposal and tackle the important issues of the day.