Forget you are jobless, you’re hungry and you/re homeless.  Never mind the knock on the front door by a military officer delivering that, “We regret to inform you” shocker of all shockers;. So what if your pension’s gone down the tube.  Forget all these troubles by supporting an amendment to our constitution that’ll outlaw same sex marruage, What a relief, that’ll be for us all, knowing that we’re now free to concentrate on the pie in the sky and don’t have to aggravate ourselves with such mundane matters as the here and now..

Laura Bush revealed where the family stood on gay marriage when she said recently that she would hate it to become a big political issue.

Mrs. Bush’s outspokenness and decency on the issue of gay marriage demonstrates again why her public approval rating is 30 percentage points or so higher than her husband’s.  On the issue of gay marriage Mrs. Bush has shown sensitivity, humanity and common-sense.

The President, apparently obsessed with his falling poll numbers and fearful of slipping into irrelevancy has decided to gin up the base with yet another appeal to bigotry.  While it may increase cynicism toward the President among the more thoughtful and well-informed people still supporting him him, Bush seems to think that he is so low in the public’s esteem that he can afford to exhort the bigots and so intimidate some weak minded members of the Congress.

What the President doesn’t seem to realize is that the public’s perception of him has changed remarkably because his social security plan’s failure.  The President’s attempt to privatize social security has convinced the American public that he is not concerned about our well being.  His stubborn refusal to demand any sort of accountability from our Iraqi allies in exchange for our blood and treasure and support, further increases the sense that Bush is a blunderer.

This latest attempt to improve his standing by a naked appeal to bigotry is probably an irreparable mistake.  At odds even with his wife on this issue, GW Bush, in this appeal to bigotry, is about to lose his reputation for decency.

Robert Chapman

Rather old news.  The 108th Congress (2003-2004) proposed an amendment restricting marriage in all states to a man and a woman.  (Interestingly, the 107th Congress (2001-2002) proposed doing away with the 8th Amendment, enacted in 1791, which forbids cruel and unusual punishments of prisoners.  Are we surprised?) The handwriting is clearly on the wall.

“Why is he even pushing for this?  It’s not going to pass...”

The CW on this is that the Republicans will come up with a bill and when it fails they can play the “See what those Democrats did! They are against family values!” game.

I can smell the wood burning. How can we sidetrack the yucks away from the real issues of the day? . . .

Bush has got to be a prime example of something I did not think could happen. He has reversed the process of evolution and is actually going backwards into the dark.

I think that younger people voting in greater numbers would help legalize the equality of all people, whatever their sexual orientation. But I can also understand how they think that voting is a waste of time at the moment, especially when Robert Kennedy Jr. wrote a compelling article this week making the case for a stolen 2004 election.

But don’t blame the older people as the ones who are pushing this anti-gay-marriage agenda. I’ve met some scary young people who are similarly bigoted. Gay teenagers are not being beaten up by gangs of vicious grannies at their high schools.

Canada is going to be revisiting it’s legalization of gay marriage law in the fall. The Prime Minister is not elderly, but is a conservative right winger, both fiscally and socially, and is an ostentatiously fundamentalist Christian. He has a “base” of similar people to appease for voting him in. He has the support of only 37% of the population and is the head of a minority government.

The anti-gay bunch, young and old, are control freaks, ever eager to push their agenda on everyone else.

They remind me of the type of people who Woody Allen once described as “toilet-trained at gunpoint”.

Why is he even pushing for this?  It’s not going to pass and will only further alienate most of the American public.  Good thing he’s got support to spare...oh, wait.  Never mind.

So, just to get this straight:

Bush is rallying people behind hate because fear is beginning to fail him?  I think we all saw this one coming from a mile away.

This desperate would be king will do anything to distract from all the other “things” plaguing him, including a rating down in the sewer! He and his ilk already know that amending the constitution for something as mundane as gay marriage has about as much of a chance in passing as a snowball in hell. But, desperate people do desperate things.

June 1, 2006

VALUES’ VOTERS AND THEIR COURTESANS
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As the GOP performs their customary election year rite of pandering to the Values’ Voters, their arms-length yet sacred coalition government partner, by offering an amendment with which to defile both gays and the constitution, consider this:

A thin, multi-pierced young man with a green blaze in his hair is walking down a high school corridor. He approaches a hulking figure, in this case the school’s starting defensive tackle, who is noisily slamming shut his locker. “Hey Dude, do you know which room the gay lesbian meeting’s in?” “Yeh, go up that stairwell and turn right. You’ll see it.”

Neither young man gives this hallway exchange a moment’s thought or reflection. The point is that, comparatively speaking, young people give less and less a fig about gay-lesbian activities, including whether or not G-L’s appropriate the word marriage to consummate their emotional and contractual needs.

What exists now is that a higher percentage of older voters are against gay marriage thus controlling the voting outcome on this issue. With certitude, this will change as seniors leave the voting rolls and youth join. Polling (Pew) confirms this trend and can actuarially divine the future year in which the majority of American voters will vote to allow gay marriage.

This whorish pandering to the TheoRight’s bigotry’ needs may seem despicable and shallow but trollops must do what trollops must do to stay in bed with the Value’s Voters.