Bush backs ban in Constitution on gay marriage
NYTimes: David Stout: ‘Even though Mr. Bush insisted today that the amendment he favored would not undermine tolerance and respect for all individuals, his remarks were condemned.’ [→ READ ]
President Bush said today he supported a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, declaring that such a measure was the only way to protect the status of marriage between man and woman, which he called “the most fundamental institution of civilization.”
This amendment idea is bare-knuckled bigotry and discrimination for which there is no defense. At foundation this idea has nothing to do with homosexuality — it’s all about the willingness to alter our nation’s Constitution to the end of removing citizens’ rights instead of guaranteeing them.
The president is charged with defending the Constitution, not taking a crap on it.
I like Allen’s observations this morning about what thin ice those who use scripture to legislate sexuality are standing on.
The conservative proponents of biblical sexual standards better hope that no one examines the texts they rely upon too closely for many of the Bible’s ideas about sexual morality are quite alien to our own.
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