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...modern democracies to introduce civil marriages or civil partnerships for those couples. I accept Sullivan's point that churches should be free to have their own rules. But the greatest rule or commandment is to love one another. As a devout Roman Catholic, I believe we must afford same-sex couples acceptance, support and liturgical celebrations of love and commitment. I have been quietly celebrating such ceremonies for 18 years. Many clergy and other people in the Catholic Church and other churches would agree with me but, sadly, are silenced by a prevailing culture of fear. Pat Buckley Larne, Northern...
President Bush’s official announcement late last month to support the Federal Marriage Amendment, which would rewrite the Constitution to prevent same-sex marriage, came as no surprise. In fact, it is almost humorous that CNN would send out a breaking news update to alert its subscribers of this fact. Bush has danced around the issue of same-sex marriage for months, attempting to allow conservative analysts the time to calculate his political strategy. His State of the Union address this year offered a hint at what was to come, but shied away from any explicit statements...
...speech did not go far beyond reiterating empty allusions to his narrow perception of the United States’ “cultural, religious and natural roots.” By this he refers to the cultural hegemony of an Anglo-Saxon, Protestant conservatism. Allowing same-sex couples the right to enter into civil marriage in the United States does not, however, impinge in any way on the cultural or religious freedoms that Bush claims to protect. Instead, it affords bisexual, gay, lesbian and transgender (BGLT) people a legal status that is granted unconditionally to heterosexual couples upon request...
...destructive of moral supremacy, and ultimately this slavery to black beasts will bring this nation to a fatal conflict.” The same hateful rhetoric that Roddenberry espoused more than 90 years ago can now be seen flowing from the mouths of the religious right about same-sex marriage. But attitudes are changing, and it will not be long before Bush’s comments are seen by the general populace to be as despicable as Roddenberry?...
...United States Constitution is not a place for zealots and bigots to enshrine discrimination, especially when an ABC News/Washington Post poll reported that 48 percent of respondents said that the states should decide on the issue of same-sex marriage, whereas only 43 percent actually supported the proposed amendment. With or without widespread support, though, this amendment is a miscarriage of justice that would create a constitutionally-delineated second-class status for the BGLT population...