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    Yet again Bush & the Republicans bring out social issues to try to win over their socially conservative base. As it worked to pander to Fundamentalist Christians, or Christianists in both of Bush's prior elections, Republicans are hoping it'll work yet again in the November elections.
     There are several issues which are important to these socially conservative pricks who carry the nationalistic 'traditional values' banner. Flag burning is one issue that is supposed to be taken up soon, but abortion and even obscenity are especially important to the fanatical right.
     Currently gay marriage is the big issue the President and Congress are focusing on. This as gas prices continue to climb, the hurricane season is upon us and much of the Gulf especially New Orleans is unprepared, FEMA is still the same unprepared, bloated joke it was before, and of course the Iraq war continues on now riddled with scandals involving atrocities by US soldiers, and civil war still seems likely. The House of Representatives is trying to pass an Amendment to the Constitution to ban gay marriage across the board. It hasn't had much of a chance in passing and everyone knows that. Nonetheless, they tried anyway. It didn't pass, in fact it was no where close. A 2/3 majority was needed and they didn't even hit 60%.
     The political ploy here is so obvious, most people can't help but see it even Republican political pundits admit to it. I find it interesting that none of them express any sort of shame for using such a tactic. It seems to be excused as fair game in the arena of politics, and in fairness the Democrats do it as well. I think this is a fine example as to just how disingenuous much of the political process is. so much is done for show, simply to win people's approval but not to actually get anything done.
     While it's bad enough that they put far more important issues aside simply to try to win support in upcoming elections, what makes this truly despicable is that they'd exploit a class of law-abiding American citizens to accomplish this. They're seeking to oppress, to write discrimination into the Constitution all for future votes. The abuse of power doesn't get much more sick than that. Unfortunately little has been said about this. Those on the left are bitching of course, but not as if this is perhaps a criminal violation of their offices. I don't think there has been nearly enough outrage about this, it's sort of written off as if it's just politics as usual. That says a lot for how broken and unethical our system of government is.
     All this aside, I cannot believe it is not more obvious to people how bigoted all of this is. To deny marriage to people... I can't begin to understand their rationale. I've heard dozens of reasons why members of the same sex should not marry each other but none of them are legitimate, moreover none of them are significant enough to force an otherwise 'normal' class of people into a second class status. This is nothing more than a blanket generalization of an entire group of people who certainly do not think or act with one mind or lifestyle.
     I could more readily accept an argument for placing restrictions on marriage if they wanted to forbid marrying multiple times, to add more social requirements be met prior to marriage for instance that one must be in a committed relationship for a certain period of time, or be at a certain economic level, but that's not what they are advocating here. What they are advocating here is no different than banning mixed racial marriages. They are forbidding homosexual couples from marrying because the partners are the same sex. That's it. They can't point to anything inherently detrimental about this other than their religious beliefs that it is unnatural or sinful. This should not be a valid concern for the state given our separation of Church and State. This or they make some generalized assumption about the couple's commitment & overall morality when clearly this would have to be done on a case by case basis, which I might add they DO NOT do in regards to heterosexual couples.
     So, yeah, banning gay marriage is entirely based on bigotry, stereotyping, unwarranted & unjust discrimination, and it all comes down to prejudices based on religious dogma & ideologies of 'traditional'. There is no legitimate argument here that holds any sort of weight in a society that promotes equality; a society which has a Bill of Rights such as our own. That is perhaps made most obvious by the fact that they want to Amend the Constitution to make their discrimination law stick because they know any State or Federal law would not hold up to Constitutional scrutiny, most likely even if challenged under a largely conservative court as we have now.
     I don't know how this could turn any more shameful and disgusting than it already is, but knowing how the Republicans are, it most certainly will.

~ James         

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