July 30, 2003
Bush wants to prevent gay marriage.
The
New York Times reports that President Bush is looking for legislation that would formally define marriage as that between a man and a woman.
"I believe marriage is between a man and a woman, and I believe we ought to codify that one way or the other, and we have lawyers looking at the best way to do that," Mr. Bush said at a news conference in the Rose Garden.
The president's comments, coming only a few weeks after the Supreme Court overturned a Texas law banning sodomy and holding, in effect, that whatever consenting adults do in private is their own business, seemed likely to reignite issues that have deep social and political implications.
I still don't think people fully get that these folks really want to repeal everything that was accomplished during the thirties and sixties, and pretty much the rest of the 20th century. They want to go back to white, male, Christian supremacy. They don't say so straight out, but that's the intention. They believe that that's what God wants, and that it is their duty to do this. If lives are lost or just destroyed, they're the lives of infidels, and don't matter.
The fact that the Supreme Court and most of the rest of the country feel entirely different about it also doesn't matter. These people don't believe in real democracy, or the rule of law, or constitutional process. They just want things their way. But any means necessary.
