Well I have avoided this for a few days, but now I just have to let it out. During George Bush´s "State of he Union Address" this week, Bush once again made his feelings on gay marriage clear, this time without actually using a reference to homosexuals.
Along with so many others from the christian right Bush wants to create a constitutional amendment that would ban making gay marriage legal. In a time when republicans are yelling for smaller less intrusive government, they ae still showing their true colors. Republicans tout states rights, but it seems only if the state is in line with their thinking.
I think taking this to the point of constitutional amendments shows a sense of fear, and wanting for control. It is almost as if the right s saying “Ok, all you queers, we gave you everything else because we had to, but there is no way we will ever let you feel like equals completely.”
Sexuality in the oppressive mind of the right seems to be an exclusive club, tying into the debate on religion. Still after all these years, the only people they want to feel like are complete, and worthy citizens are white christian heterosexual males. If you are anything less, you are strictly second class.
In Alabama when the Ten Commandment “monument” was removed, the christians were screaming that their right to freedom of religious expression was being trampled. Still, is there anyone in this world that believes the christian right of Alabama would stand by and allow someone to erect a two ton Buddhist altar with burning incense in the middle of the court house? Where do you think their civil rights activism would be geared then? Or how about a giant pagan goat head in the middle of a pentacle? Oh, I am sure they would just be up in arms if someone tried to have it removed, right?
The motto of the republican party seems to be “You can have all the same rights as we do, as long as you become one of us. Everyone has the right to be equal, you have just as much a right to marry someone of the opposite sex, and turn your life to Jesus as we did.”
So does freedom of religion mean using personal religious beliefes to alter the constitution?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/01/20020129-11.html
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