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Debate Begins on Gay Marriage Amendment

Top: Mike Luckovich / Middle: Dwayne Powell / Bottom: Mr. Fish

President Bush renewed his call for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Detractors called the move transparently political—in light of the fact that the proposed amendment stands virtually no chance of passing either house of Congress.

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Washington Post:

President Bush renewed his call yesterday for Congress to approve a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union between a man and a woman, saying such a step is necessary to keep courts from undermining traditional marriage.

As the Senate began debate on the amendment barring same-sex marriage, the president summoned supporters to the White House to hear his plea that marriage “not be redefined by activist judges.” The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has legalized same-sex marriage, and courts in other states have nullified voter-approved referendums that would ban it.

The president’s comments cheered conservative activists, coming after a long period of relative quiet from him on an issue many analysts believe was critical to his reelection victories in Ohio and other states in 2004.

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By Lsjfffsj, September 19, 2006 at 3:40 pm #
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By L Short, June 7, 2006 at 10:35 am #
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the truth is that the people who were “elected” to run our government march to a different drum not one that we the people hear, it is on that is aimed at maximizes the bottm line for their benifactors again not the people who sweat for a living.

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By Fart Marple, June 6, 2006 at 11:24 pm #
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What a stupid ass cartoon. Even I think it ain’t got no good tatse.

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By Nat Turner, June 6, 2006 at 9:27 pm #
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Much has been written and said about George W. Bush since his elevation to the Presidency of the United States. Much has been made of the centrality of gay bashing to his political fortunes. Its still taboo though to discuss Mr. Bushs own sexuality in polite political discourse. In fact, if he werent about to set the world on fire, this matter would be irrelevant.

This aspect of Bushs nature is of necessity deeply buried in his own psyche under a mountain of self-loathing and insecurity. Homosexuality could never be allowed to openly manifest itself as it does in a healthy gay man, like say Gore Vidal. Sadly in our violently homophobic society his very physical survival depends on the suppression of this reality.

In fact, the Bush Administrations inner circle shares with Hitlers Nazi leadership a very influential cadre of closeted gay men and sadists. The Nazis mass murder of gay men was partly an attempt to kill the demons they felt tormented by in their own minds. The electoral exploitation of gay marriage measures by the Bush Administration and their homoerotic torture chambers at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo serves much the same purpose.

George Bush deeply despises women as weaklings and seeks gratification by dominating other men. He gravitates toward sexless females in the mold of Condi Rice and surrounds himself with submissive male advisors and aides. These are the men who fear to bring real world news to him, men who will remain loyal despite being berated or humiliated before others, men like Karl Rove who will answer to the name Turd Blossom without protest. It is in this atmosphere that a James Guckert a.k.a. Jeff Gannon gets the run of the White House while the dean of the press corps Helen Thomas is scorned by Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan. It is in this atmosphere that a John R. Bolton is forced on the U.N., and a Jack Abramoff rises to lobbist-in-chief along with his Christian buddy Ralph Reed, and a Ken Mehlman gets to steer the Republican Party, and a John Roberts and his instant family is made Chief Justice while Harriet Miers is humiliated, and an 82nd Airborne Division begins producing gay porn.

The Presidents spirit is clearly freest during bike rides with Lance Armstrong or driving martial artist Vladimir Putin around the ranch in Crawford. Just as clearly, to do the same with the newly elected women presidents of Chile or Liberia would be quite awkward.

Then there is the most joyous moment of the Bushs presidency. It came on May 1, 2002. After training in the White House pool for an accidental ocean crash, recall the radiantly happy man dressed in an airmans flight suit with the oversized codpiece that landed on the USS Lincoln to declare that he had won the Iraq War.

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By joe, June 6, 2006 at 8:16 pm #
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I can’t believe that this nation and the media continue to give credence to that idiot at the White Washed House. The problems of the world and this nation are just too big and complex for us as a nation to allow ourselves to be sidetracked by absolute stupidity.

It is time for the nation to assert itself and begin the task of reconstruction and healing. Can we just ignore the moron and begin to live as if he was already long gone to some hole in Texas.

Our children and grandchildren will be very grateful.

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By Pragmatique, June 6, 2006 at 4:14 pm #
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What do you expect from the Jethro types?

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By Stephen Coady, June 6, 2006 at 12:17 pm #
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It is time for the Democratic party and others to take Newt Gingrinch’s advice (I know, I know…) and start repeating like a mantra, “Had Enough?”

Everyone fighting these bastards needs to take this up.

All ref to Bush should be written with President in quotations: “President” Bush…

This vapid neer-do-well drunkard with the IQ of a gnat should be last person on earth crying about the activist judges in MA. If it was not for activist judges this ass would never have made it to the White House. The worst President of modern times.

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By Jean Luc, June 6, 2006 at 10:08 am #
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As the body-bags and wounded return to the U.S. from various war-zones around the globe, we interrupt your normally scheduled programming to bring to you a debate on gay marriage. Unbelievable!

Could someone EXPLAIN to me, why I should care about what two consenting adults do in privacy of their lives? Permit me to put this simply: I DON’T CARE! Let me put it more plainly: I DON’T CARE! What, exactly, is the impact on society of Gays getting married???

I can think of MILLIONS of other things which have a DIRECT, IMMEDIATE, APPARENT and DIRE impact on society in the U.S. which go virtually UNADDRESSED. Hungry children, disease, education, housing, the elderly, Jobs, the environment… ad-nauseum

So please, spare me the B.S. so-called Bible based distractions! Get real… this is DUMB!

Jean Luc

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By jaye, June 6, 2006 at 3:13 am #
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In the Great State of Texas, it is perfectly legal for a county clerk to issue a marriage license to first cousins.

This, no doubt, explains so much.

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By JP, June 5, 2006 at 10:44 pm #
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No wonder people find it difficult to like us anymore.

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