Bush Supports Gay Marriage
When you think about it, he does, but perhaps not in the way I do.
George Bush, who is now coming up short in numerous polls against both leading Democratic challengers, despite having out distanced all of them combined in the amount of funds raised, is strongly in favor of making same sex marriage rights the number one campaign issue this year.
Bush would like nothing more than to use the issue to divide, and thus conquer, his opponents, as he galvanizes support from his conservative extremist base. He knows that continual discussion forces centrists to pick a side and he’s betting that they’ll fall down on the side of fear of the unknown and a disruption of all things “normal.” As self declared “moral leader” he wants to be depicted as savior of a pure and sacred nation constantly threatened by terrorists abroad and liberal extremists at home.
The President is counting on being able to mold and shape enough unformed or ambivalent minds into thinking that the best way to defend marriage is by stopping people of the same gender who just want the right to have one. As he has said, occurrences in San Francisco, and now New Mexico and New Paltz, NY are “troubling” to him, and he’s hoping they are troubling to you too.
But make no mistake, it is not the idea of gay marriage that really frightens him. It is the idea that we’ll stop talking about it between now and November. If America turns its eye away from this issue, then we will most surely return to discussing the unnecessary war waging in Iraq.
If we start talking about the war, then once again we’ll begin talking about the 500+ American soldiers and thousands of innocent Iraqis killed, despite the fact that there were never “weapons of mass destruction” there as he claimed; Saddam Hussein never had any role in 9/11 as he tried to allude; the official war ended months ago and stability in that region seems years away.
If Americans stop debating the fact that two heterosexual drunks on a one night stand can fall into a wedding chapel in Las Vegas and receive more rights than two lesbians in a 20 year relationship, then we might also remember that more than $200 billion dollars have been spent on the war effort, with most of it going to defense contractors like Halliburton, the company Vice President Dick Cheney used to run. While Bush campaign contributors profit off of other people’s misery, here at home domestic programs benefiting education, health care, youth, seniors, the environment and a host of others, have had their budgets slashed considerably.
Bush’s desire to enact a constitutional amendment to define and limit marriage specifically to a man and a woman is a hot button issue guaranteed to ratchet up the rhetoric on both sides of the political divide. As it does our minds are sure to drift away from the whopping federal deficit, the largest in the nation’s history, and the jobless recovery that only Wall Street investors seem to be benefiting from.
Gay marriage opponents all know that if we allow this sinful act to be sanctioned by the government, it will lead us down the road to damnation. We must stop that from happening. In fact, the powers of John Ashcroft’s Patriot Act should give the FBI and other law enforcement officials unprecedented freedom to snoop and pry into our everyday lives without permission, and in so doing stave off such abominable acts, or anything else they so deem against their view of what is patriotic, holy or both.
Yes, if you are George W. Bush, gay marriage is the single most important issue facing the nation today. As he must know, if we don’t all face it together, than surely we will all stand in opposition to him and his deceitful, corrupt and morally bankrupt administration.
Posted by bernie at March 1, 2004 12:20 PMTrackBack