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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?...
...raised in a home with a mother and a father,” cites an article asserting that “‘gay marriage’ devalues women.” The article states emphatically that women (or men) would be rendered superfluous in a world of same-sex marriages—but it refuses to show how two men or women choosing to enter the institution of marriage will degrade the institution of marriage for heterosexuals. Matt Daniels, president of the Alliance for Marriage, asserts that “marriage is the key to reducing the high...
...even more towns and cities across America begin issuing same-sex marriage liscenses, gay and lesbian “body snatchers” will infiltrate the heterosexual masses, converting their sexualities and dissolving their marriages...