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a very, very shocking issue
“It's time to stop burying our heads in the sand and denying reality” – Barry Goldwater
The great American debate of the 21st century is not how to end the healthcare crisis or how to guarantee a full education to every citizen but instead whether or not the government has the right to discriminate and deny equality to homosexuals.
EGADS!!! What’s wrong with this picture?
Laura Bush said gay marriage is "a very, very shocking issue." Really Mrs. Bush? I thought the more shocking issue was your husband, the President of the United States, use of the armed forces for personal political gain. Or as it was recently reported in a 40-page document, "Politics and Science in the Bush Administration," published by the House Government Reform Committee's special investigations division that his administration is “spiking science with politics to justify conservative policies.” Now that is shocking!! But in the tradition of Bush’s denials his administration stands as an affront of tolerance and inclusion just as his counterpart George Wallace did in 1963 when he stood in front of the University of Alabama’s main entrance to stop desegregation. http://www.archives.state.al.us/govs_list/schooldoor.html
According to the First Lady she says, "It's an issue that people want to talk about and not want the Massachusetts Supreme Court, or the mayor of San Francisco to make their choice for them.” How much more talking does she want? We have been talking about this for years and nothing has happened. That is until now. Finally, the Mayor of San Francisco made the bold and practical move to allow same-sex couples to wed. Since gay marriages began in San Francisco more than 3,000 couples have wed. And unlike Mrs. Bush’s assessment, these gay couples are not waiting for the majority to make the decision for them. They are exercising their most basic right in their pursuit of equality and happiness.
Conservative or Big Brother?
What is happening with the modern Republican movement would make the father
of the conservative movement Barry Goldwater turn in his grave. In fact he
was quite clear in his position. He said, “We have wasted enough precious
time, money and talent trying to persecute and pretend. It's time to stop burying
our heads in the sand and denying reality for the sake of politics. It's time
to deal with this straight on and be done with it. It's time to get on with
more important business.
The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets
the belief that government should stay out of people's private lives. Government
governs best when it governs least-and stays out of the impossible task of
legislating morality. But legislating someone's version of morality is exactly
what we do by perpetuating discrimination against gays.” Barry Goldwater,
The Gay Ban: Just Plain Un-American, Wash. Post., June 10, 1993, at A-23
Constitutional Amendment
There he stood in the Roosevelt room of the White House. Pronouncing his support for a constitutional amendment to allow discrimination of gays. In his usual rhetoric he claimed, “America is a free society, which limits the role of government in the lives of our citizens.” How can we be a free society when Big Republican Government wants to dictate who we may marry?
This is more than rhetoric, this is more distortion of the facts, especially when he says, “Our government should respect every person.” His idea of respecting every person is to deny one of the constitution’s basic tenets, that we have the right to the “pursuit of happiness” without government intervention.
Usurpation of the Constitution
The President not only is promoting discord, intolerance and hate but also the disregard of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. He acknowledges that the Constitution in the Fourth Amendment guarantees, “full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts and records and judicial proceedings of every other state.” Yet, when it comes to recognizing same-sex marriages he proposes to ignore the supreme law of the land. In fact, he is creating a potential constitutional crisis by urging states to ignore the Fourth Amendment.
Now that, Mrs. Bush, is shocking!!!
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