By bush "supporting marriage"....did he just alienate over 1/2 of America?

[cthrumatrix]

Translation-- does this mean he is against divorce?

Of course this is a campaign issue to divide people from these issues.

Does govt have the right to do this..?

(I am not pro or con marriage -- people have freedom to choose)

[zanana]

1. Good point.

Aren't something like 50% of couples cohabitating unmarried?

[sallyseven]

2. Look at his brother Neil

What does he say about that. Lets make sure that People know about Barb and her treatment of her daughter in law. What a family of corrupt liars.

[Plaid Adder]

3. This is one of the things I have been trying to point out to people...

The same-sex marriage issue is revealing that the rightwingers are just as anti-divorce or single-parent families as they are anti-gay. They believe that the only way to raise a child is in an intact nuclear family: one husband, one wife, and their children. All their reasons for why same-sex marriage = the apocalypse go back to this idea that it's dangerous and wrong to raise a child in anythin gother than an intact nuclear family. ANyone raising a child in any other situation should hate the American Family Association and its friends just as much as I do.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[rustydog]

5. I think you may be off-base a bit...

Some of this nation's loudest proponents of the sanctity of marriage have been divorced!
They are trying to put their anti-gay fears into a biblical connotation that agrees with their God hates Gays preaching.
How many right-wing legislators are twice or thrice married, yet rant about the sanctity of the family?
isn't newtered gingrich a deadbeat dad? he pandered to the christian right..
I think if Bush wants to cloud the election debate with a stand on a marriage initiative, then the words "then you would favor outlawing divorce to save the institution of marriage Mr. President?" have to be inserted in the discussion.
If for any reason, to show what a lying hypocrite he can be even on his alleged religious beliefs.

[cthrumatrix]

6. I agree this is a "rove play" - shrub gives a crap about this...it's for

election.

Why not take that $1.5B and create a jobs program that may actually benefit people or take the Mars $$$ and benefit people.

[lovedems]

8. That has been my point exactly! I wonder how many couples out there

are divorcing or on the verge of divorce because of their financial situation? Money has a history of interfering with relationships. How many "husbands" have lost their job and now it is a problem for the whole *&%$ing family?

[brook]

9. My Dad's...

advice on marriage was: "There's only two places a marriage breaks apart - in the bedroom or the bank account."

Perhaps if efforts were made to restore the middle class to financial security (decent jobs coupled with afforable health insurance, home ownership and education) we'd see an upturn in longterm, healthy marriages?

[GiovanniC]

4. We Should Only Have Good, Upstanding, God-Fearing Straight People

getting married.

You know, like Brittney Spears.

[Insider]

7. three ring circus

he continued the three ring circus of headlines and issues to divert attention from the real ones. karl strikes again. moon-mars-marriage

[PVnRT]

10. It's pandering

The religious right for years has wanted a constitutional amendment outlawing gay marriage, and things like this are a step in that direction. This is a distraction issue, a wedge issue, that serves no other purpose during an election year than to get people to vote against their interests so that they can expand their agenda and start doing real harm.