Bush calls for constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage

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Washington -- President Bush called for a constitutional amendment Tuesday to ban marriage between members of the same sex, warning that such unions in San Francisco and other communities threaten "the most fundamental institution of civilization.'' Bush called on Congress to promptly pass an amendment defining marriage as a union of a man and a woman, asserting that same-sex marriages defy "more than two centuries of American jurisprudence and millennia of human experience. ''


comments?
 
BTW...Sorry Gonz, I know that you have a similar thread, but in this case, I'm more interested in wether the president should allow his own beliefs to rewrite the constitution. I'm also interested in wether people feel that this is just an election ploy to swing the conservative vote to him instead of an amendment based on what is best for the country at large and society specifically.
 
MrBishop said:
BTW...Sorry Gonz, I know that you have a similar thread, but in this case, I'm more interested in wether the president should allow his own beliefs to rewrite the constitution. I'm also interested in wether people feel that this is just an election ploy to swing the conservative vote to him instead of an amendment based on what is best for the country at large and society specifically.
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As long as we're after different subjects, go to it.

HOLY SHIT!!!!

Suddenly the living breathing document is untouchable.
 
i think this is horribly horribly wrong to amend the constitution just because some people don't like homosexuality. Which, in reality, is what it all boils down to.
 
I wholeheartedly disagree. This goes much farther than the choices of bed partners. Most people, even a majority of the scary religious right, don't care who one sleeps with. It's pandering to special interests that is the problem.
 
they want themselves pandered to dont they? they keep bitching about how people want a separation of church and state. theyd like to have the right ti cram themselves down the throat.
 
even a majority of the scary religious right, don't care who one sleeps with.
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I think you'd better check again. They not only care what gender, but whom specifically.
 
The government has no business telling states who they can and cannot marry. Marriage is a religous issue, not a government issue.

Perhaps a good solution would be for the government, at any level, to stop "marrying" people and simply grant "Civil Unions" to everyone. Let churches decide who can get "married" and who can't. If the Unitarians want to marry homosexual couples, let them. If Baptists want to marry only heterosexual couples, so be it.

rrfield
 
rrfield said:
The government has no business telling states who they can and cannot marry. Marriage is a religous issue, not a government issue.

Perhaps a good solution would be for the government, at any level, to stop "marrying" people and simply grant "Civil Unions" to everyone. Let churches decide who can get "married" and who can't. If the Unitarians want to marry homosexual couples, let them. If Baptists want to marry only heterosexual couples, so be it.

rrfield
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Check the temperature in Ohio. Hell just froze over,

I completely agree with you.
 
You're cramming your beliefs that religion should shut up & be nice down everyones throat...

I'm pointing out that we all do the same thing. Don't preach about others actions when yours are damn near identical.
 
where the fuck did i say they should shut up? i said not to cram down everyones throat and it doesnt belong everywhere. I personally have said this before.


i do not mind it if all are tehre. if not none. there is no need for religions to get favourtism.
 
Rosie O'Donnell weds longtime girlfriend in San Francisco

O'Donnell told the crowd that she and Carpenter, who have been together six years and are raising four children, decided to dash to San Francisco after hearing President Bush endorse a proposed constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage Tuesday.
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I want to thank the city of San Francisco for this amazing stance the mayor has taken for all the people here, not just us but all the thousands and thousands of loving, law-abiding couples," O'Donnell said, after she Kelli Carpenter emerged from their brief ceremony inside Mayor Gavin Newsom's office in City Hall.

Just thought that was interesting.
 
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