Today, we fight

Today, the president will take a stand against gay marriage. Today, the president will officially declare his priorities at odds with America's. Today, the president will pander do his bigoted, extremist base when there are so many far more pressing issues to address. Today, the president will declare the Republican Party irrelevant.

How did the president get to this point? He got here by squandering the world's goodwill in the days following September 11. He got here by rushing America into an unjust war based on a pack of lies. He got here by abandoning millions of Americans along the Gulf Coast. He got here because he knows his party's prospects this fall are dim.

Knowing this, he's taking a stand on an issues his friends admit he doesn't "give a shit" about. Knowing this, he's again appealing to a base to which he's promised so much, yet delivered so little. Knowing this, he's declaring war on millions of hard-working, tax-paying Americans. Today, he wants a fight. Today, let's give it to him.

Today, President Bush declares gay marriage America's most pressing issue. More pressing than Iraq. More pressing than Iran. More pressing than terrorism. More pressing than immigration. In other words, the Bush administration has cured all that ails America except the threat to our democracy two loving individuals pose.

Today, on the 25th anniversary of the first mentions of AIDS, the president has decided that instead of vowing to redouble our efforts to combat this terrible affliction, he would rather further stigmatize a community needlessly stigmatized nearly 30 years ago. Bush's predecessor and idol, Ronald Reagan, did little then. This president, accordingly, would rather appeal to people's hatred than people's power to affect change.

Today, the president considers banning gay marriage so important that he wants to see the U.S. Constitution amended to make it so. He wants a ban on gay marriage to join amendments that gave us rights. That gave us freedoms. That carried us out of slavery. That shaped our American identity. Funny how the president wants to add to the Constitution when his administration has done so much to shred our nation's most important document, don't you think?

Today, the president declares his allegiance not to every American, but to a radical minority. An extremist fringe that not only doesn't want gays to marry, but also doesn't want them to adopt and, quite likely, even exist. An extremist fringe that wants to relegate women to second-class citizenship, taking away their right to choose and, if they had their way, their right to contraception. An extremist fringe that hates science as much as it hates gays, women and Mexicans. An extremist fringe that would rather be a thorn in our collective side than an instrument of progress.

Today, the president willfully brings hate to the Rose Garden. The party that couldn't even unanimously oppose doing nothing about lynching is poised to hang gays in effigy on the White House lawn. Would so many Americans turn such a blind eye toward today's events had the president set a cross ablaze before a national audience? Would so many Americans seek to "defend marriage" if what the president spoke out against was interracial marriage, not gay marriage?

Today, the president hammers yet another nail in the coffin of traditional conservatism. By seeking to amend the Constitution, Bush gives lie to the notion that the Republican Party is the party of state's rights. But what else would you expect from a "conservative" that has brought us unprecedented big government? Or from a "conservative" that has presided over an explosion in spending? Hypocrisy, thy name is George W. Bush.

Today, the president picks a fight. His supporters in Congress do, too. A fight that places often-divorced, often-philandering Republicans on the side of "protecting marriage". A fight that the president admittedly doesn't have the heart to pursue. A fight that again brings us the Republican politics of division, not dialogue. A fight that further reveals the Republican Party to be the home to backwards, bigoted racists it is. A fight we didn't ask for but now face. A fight we can, and will, win.

They wanted this fight. Let's give it to them.

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I appreciate it. Or, as the prez would say, I 'preciate it.

Maybe, it is time to politely, calmly, forcefully tell them what I think of their racist, sexist, homophobic, militaristic agenda?

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Tell us what they say. Probably not much.

...to his few remaining rabid supporters:evilgrin:

... to the cross-burning hate machines.

give a shit about the people of America. He has his own agenda, and he is going to address that above all else. And the same group that manipulated him when he nominated Harriet Meiers to the SCOTUS is once again pulling his strings.

What a shame that the President of the United States isn't even man enough to stand up and protect the Constitution of the United States, a duty he swore to uphold twice.

PROTECT AMERICA FROM THE RADICAL RELIGIOUS RIGHT - who promotes hatred, discrimination, and bigotry!
IMPEACH BUSH - PROSECUTE BUSH - INCARCERATE BUSH!

Well, we know what he apparently thinks of the document itself, don't we?

"It's just a G damned piece of paper!" comment.

Yep, he's certainly a good Christian man, isn't he? :eyes:

Nice priorities, Mr. President. I hope nothing serious happens while you're running around like a homophobic chicken with his head cut off.