Comments on: Marriage Amendment is a Waste of Our Nation’s Time

By: Larry Carter Center

Larry Carter Center — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:51:14 +0000

The Bush Crime Family also has an entire state devoted to the hate of lesbians & gays, as such hate is necessary as a diversion to the highest unemployment rate & highest teen pregnancy rate & highest rate of high school drop outs & illiteracy…..YUP, YOU GUESSED IT, South Carolina where it is so important to make a State Constitutional Amendment to deny equal rights to any adult domestic partnership which is not a “married” man & woman. Insane xian voters will ignore their own heroic sons maimed & dying in muslim holy lands for their holy loyalty to the Bush Crime Family. Any religion which praises killing, discrimination & conquest is an evil religion. Theocracy is treason.

By: sleipner

sleipner — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:02:31 +0000

I disagree with your point about whether gay marriage should be through popular consent – since when do minority rights get decided by the majority? The courts have always been the protectors of minorities, from women to blacks to religious nuts. Of course the California legislature actually voted to be the second state to allow gay marriage, but the conservatives beat up Schwarzie until he said no.

Not only that, but if we wait for people to grow up enough to vote for gay marriage, we’ll end up with a patchwork of individual states with civil unions of various degrees, marriage in a few blue states, and radical anti-gay constitutional amendments in many or most of the red states. The legal implications of moving from Massachusetts to Texas even now are tricky, what about when you have 40 different sets rules in the 50 states?

The best way to handle it is a supreme court case that decides the issue in favor of gay marriage for the whole country. Not that this conservative-stacked court would actually vote that way, but I have high hopes for our next Democrat president in 2008 and beyond.

By: DosPeros

DosPeros — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 03:01:20 +0000

Very good point, WJ. I don’t see why the GLBT & whatever else community isn’t jumping up and down secretly thanking Bush. With his poll numbers, who needs friends when you’ve got enemies like this.

By: wj

wj — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:00:20 +0000

On the other hand, consider what mischief they might get up to if they weren’t wasting time on this. I grant that, if the alternative was the Congress getting something useful accomplished, this would be a horrible waste of time. But with the current crop there? Probably we should count our blessings — even those of us who consider that the FMA would be a terrible idea if enacted.

By: A Blog For All

A Blog For All — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:34:16 +0000

Floaters

It’s nice to know that Congress has more important things to do with its time. Border control and immigration policy don’t compare with issues that have no chance of passage and the import of which is dubious at best.