Letter to President Bush

Yoda

Just some thoughts I enountered here. Nothing new, but a nice take on the issue.

Dear Mr. President,

I do not understand how you can honestly support an amendment to the constitution banning gay marriage in this country. I understand that you personally believe it to be wrong. I understand that your church may perceive marriage to be between a man and a woman. But I also understand that the marriages your church doles out and the ones that the state allows are two absolutely different things. The marriages given by a Catholic church, a Lutheran church, an Islamic temple, a Vegas chapel, and the Justice of the Peace are all different. You claim, with this bill, to be protecting the sanctity of marriage. Yet all this bill does is deny people benefits on the basis of their sexual orientation.

If you wish to protect the sanctity of a religion's marriage, do that in your church. If you wish to protect the meaningfulness of legal marriage, guarantee its benefits for all and protect it from reality shows. Protect it from Britney Spears. Protect it from drunken, nameless one-night stands. But do not discriminate based on what your religious convictions tell you is wrong.

Sincerely,
Bob Grannan

Stark

And will he listen? No

And will he care? No.

Pet

President Bush is the first person I have ever felt this much hatred for. Everything he stands for, everything he is, I hate. It's not just because of gay marriage either; it's everything. Bad karma to him.

seamus

smidgy wrote:

He is dead right to do so, and 51% of Americans think so too!

Correction - 30% of Americans.

damien

Apparently Bush doesn't give a damn one way or the other. The Gay Marriage ammendment was a tool to get the right wing christians to vote. 4 million of them didn't the last time. All the votes in the various states on gay marriage got them out there though. So, if he gives them what they want, what will his party do to get them to vote next time ?

Yoda

The point is that the Irish government should not be likewise allowed to claim to be protecting the sanctity of marriage by any decision against the marriage of same-sex partners. To do so would be to deny people benefits on the basis of their sexual orientation.

This fundamental fairness is why the battle will be won, whether now or by challenge through European court.

Stark

just cleaned up thread by moving bitching posts to Thunderdome. Any complaints to be made via PM or on Feedback forum. First person to post complaint here wins an instant ban.