Although I don't make a secret of my political opinions, I don't generally do diary rants on them. Since I usually read diaries before I write my own entry, I wouldn't have to do much more than say "Go read LA. What she says." Or you could go read trinity today. The two of them have pretty well summed up my feelings today, along with gem-chan. But I've decided to rant anyway.
I am furious that our country and its alleged fine ideals have been hijacked by a bunch of religious zealots who are destroying our way of life just as surely as if they've crashed airplanes into towers. I realize, of course, that real people don't always live by their ideals, but one thing we've always had here is a set of cherished beliefs to live up to, or try to. These people, led by that horrid, horrid, lying man, are claiming those ideals as their own while subverting them at every turn. This is exactly the kind of thing everyone was so damn worried about in the fifties, that communism would somehow destroy the American way of life. Turns out it wasn't communists we had to worry about at all. It was Republicans.
He says that the "marriage between a man and a woman" amendment is "what the people want." Obviously, it's not what I want, and it's not what gay people want. So then, even if every other American wanted it (which certainly many don't), it would be untrue to say that it's what the people want. But that isn't even the issue.
It's this: since when is morality legislated by majority opinion?
I believe that the majority of people in the southern states (and probably the northen states, too) in the years before the Civil War were in favor of slavery. The churches in the southern states preached that slavery was morally right according to the Bible.
Majority opinion did not make slavery morally right.
Fifty years ago -- when I was born, give or take -- it was the opinion of a great many people in this country that the people who were descended from slaves should not have the right to vote. Look it up. It was called the "poll tax", and black people who couldn't pay it couldn't vote, despite the 15th Amendment. It took another amendment to get rid of it. Because that's what Constitutional amendments are for: to preserve freedoms and rights that have been previously overlooked. Not to screw people over.
It was illegal, and morally wrong in the opinion of many, for black and white people to marry. Well, now we don't think so, do we? And even if the majority of people did think so, would it be wrong?
How could the marriage of any two people threaten the marriage of any other two people? Why do I care who my neighbors marry? Doesn't the marriage of more people = the creation of more families = the greater stability of our society?
It isn't his responsibility to legislate morality, especially not his own. No other president has done so, not even Nixon (although who the hell knew what his morality was, or if he had any.) The president has one job and one job only: to uphold the Constitution of the United States. A beautiful document if ever there was one. A document whose purpose is to preserve the individual liberties of all the people in this country. It's the only damn thing he's got to do.
I agree with Nader on one thing, and that's that this man has committed seriously impeachable offenses. Bill Clinton was impeached because he fucked one intern. Bush is fucking every one of us every day. I know which one is the criminal in my book.
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