There is a vote today in the US Senate on a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. I oppose such a constitutional amendment but I suppose they have every right to bring it to a vote. It seems a colossal waste of time - especially when the people proposing it admit they have little chance of it passing. A purely pandering election year ploy.
A couple of points.
Republican Senator in a fit of hyperbole said "I don't believe there is any issue more important than this one." WHAT. I want to be clear. There is a war in Iraq. There are trillions in deficit. The US dollar is weak and the trade deficit is growing. Parts of Louisiana are sinking into the Gulf of Mexico. High fuel prices are slowing the economy. Pictures of Brad and Angelina's baby have been leaked and prohibiting gay marriage is the most important issue around???? Come on. Even Pat Robertson wouldn't be so stupid as to say that.
This whole thing is something I don't understand anyway. How is anyone else's relationship threatened by allowing two gays to marry. If two loving adults want to make a commitment let them. How is that making more of a mockery of the tradition of marriage than seeing these freaky Michael Jackson/Lisa Marie Presley 30 second marriages. Liz Taylor's 243 marriages are OK but others aren't? A quickie annulment but well connected and wealthy Catholics is perfectly OK but two gays in along term commited relationship is an abomination? Seeing the huge money these churhes spend on fancy churches and political action to fight issues like this is an abomination to me but I recognize thier right to do it. And they would denounce me if I tried to curb it. Why do they have to limit others rights because it makes them feel icky? No one is saying thier church has to marry gays. Just let them get married as they want to. It is ludicrous.
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