Dobbs: Gay marriage amendment sheer nonsense

Dobbs: Gay marriage amendment sheer nonsense
By Lou Dobbs

NEW YORK (CNN) -- ... The president and the Senate's Republican leadership are now claiming that an amendment to our Constitution is necessary to save the American family. No matter how you feel about the issue, and many of us feel deeply, a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage is utter and complete nonsense. It's an insult to the intelligence of every voter, Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative.

The president and the Senate are focusing on one of the few reasons that has not been proven to cause divorce. They instead should look to financial hardships, and the lack of communication about family finances. The median family income is stagnating while gasoline costs and higher interest rates are eating up the family budget. Nor is the Senate looking at the national tragedy of out-of-wedlock births: In seven states, more than 40 percent of our children are born out of wedlock. Nationally, more than one out of three of our children are born to unmarried parents...

I'd rather see our 535 elected representatives and this president use their time to combat poverty, fix our crumbling schools, secure our broken borders and ports and hold employers accountable for hiring illegal aliens. And like millions of Americans, I am desperate for a resolution to our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. How can we tolerate elected officials who press wedge issues when 37 million people in the United States live in poverty, one in every eight Americans? Almost 18 percent of children under the age of 18 live in poverty -- 13 million children.

Nearly 46 million people live without health insurance, about 16 percent of the population, a number that has risen by 6 million since 2000. More than one in 10 children are uninsured, and one-quarter of people with incomes below $25,000 also lack any health insurance. College costs are skyrocketing. There's been a 40 percent jump (inflation-adjusted) in tuition and fees at public four-year colleges and universities over the past five years, according to the College Board. The costs for brand-name prescription drugs have also increased twice as fast as the rate of inflation. In fact, over the past six years, the average rise in the price of brand-name drugs is 40 percent, according to the AARP...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/06/dobbs.june7/

where I am in complete agreement with Lou Dobbs. Well done, sir.

with the part where he seems to think that a child born out of wedlock is a tragedy. My son just as happy as everyone elses.

But Dobbs doesn't.

Don

Methinks that certain DUers who have an axe to grind with Dobbs are trying to paint a very different picture of Dobbs' position on this issue.

hard to peg him as Conservative or Liberal...

Populist, maybe?

But whatever his political bent, I agree with him more often than not. He and KO are the only two who make sense to me on most subjects. And the great thing about Dobbs is that he's like a dog with a bone when something sets him off.