Gay Marriage

My blog seems to have become largely an entertainment blog of late, so here's a little politics for you.

So, President Chimpy is now pushing for a constitutional ban on gay marriage. As Salon points out, this may have a bit to do with the fact that Bush is looking bad on every other issue, including the economy.

But seriously, a constitutional ban on gay marriage? This isn't even a question of sexual morality or the best environment to raise kids or any of that... this issue goes to the heart of what our Constitution is about.

The Constitution is about protecting rights, not taking them away. The Constitution gives us freedom of religion, speech, and, until recently anyway, it did a pretty good job of protecting our privacy in general.

And now Bush wants to use the Constitution to take rights away from a group of people. Well, despite the fact that our Constitution has a great success record when it comes to taking rights away, Bush can fuck off.

Then again, the Constitution is basically irrelevant to Bush at this point, so maybe that's why he thinks it's no big deal to have this amendment.

Personally, though, I think it's important to fight for the rights of the recently out-of-the-closet Batwoman.