Bush calls for gay-marriage amendment

[ropi]

President reassures religious conservatives at Baptist meeting


NASHVILLE, Tenn. -

Reviving a major plank of his re-election campaign, President Bush called for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage Tuesday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8303545/

[dr.zoidberg]

1. Just doing it to placate the fundies.

Bush knows that his has no chance in hell of it passing. You can't convince that he does think it will pass. This amendment was just a way to get votes in '04. you all realize the reason he plays the Christian card so much right? So he can get the fundie votes. It's really that simple. I mean, look where he made the statement at. It's at a fucking Baptist meeting! What's he going to tell them? That it has no chance of passing? He can't do that. It's bad politics. so he makes at empty promise. Sunrise, sunset. Same ol' shit. No more, no less.

[davidinalameda]

5. take a look at this country

he carried how many states?

how many states now have anti-same sex amendments in their constitutions

this issue is not going away

[dr.zoidberg]

9. They're idiots.

You have to be an idiot to actually take this amendment seriously. I believe even FOX News took this amendment for what it was, a political tool.

[Kurovski]

2. You know things are at there lowest for them

when they drag this one out.

They must hang on to that little sliver of hard-core crackpots (the base) that would only abandon the party if they gave up gay-thrashing and other interference in the private lives of Americans.

Especially after they failed to rush into the hospice and "save" Terri Schaivo.

They are trying to turn those disappointed sheep back into the fold

[Goldeneye]

3. God, he's worthless.

[yardwork]

4. How much more before the Log Cabin Republicans wake up?

The day after the election our local NPR affiliate interviewed a self-identified gay man (closeted because he's in the Marines) who said he voted for chimpy because "I don't want to pay a lot of taxes and besides I didn't think he really meant that stuff about gays."

[ropi]

6. this may be a silly question...

but i was thinking... and i am not a constitutional scholar by any means...

if they are trying to drive this amendment forward, then--are they really in a sort of oft way admitting that we have the right to marriage and that even states who have prohibited it went against their own constitutions?

[ladeuxiemevoiture]

10. Sort of - it's a pre-emptive strike. They have

people working for them as smart as those working on the GLBT side, and they know as well as anyone else that the DOMA will be struck down sooner or later. Also, time is on the GLBT side, in that younger people support equal rights in far higher numbers than older people, and so it will only become more difficult to pass such an amendment as time wears on.

[Duncan Grant]

7. Bring. It. On. (nt)

[terrya]

8. Do it. And it will be slapped down again.