What a sad turn of events, the Obama should come out for "gay marriage".
The situation is fraught with personal passion and misunderstanding.
In a nutshell: What's "insufficient" abut Civil Unions? The Majority of Americans would support Civil Unions without much, if any, hesitation.
Yet, there are those who will accept nothing short of using the term "Marriage" to describe the conjugation of lives they wish to undertake.
To insist on this designation, is insulting, deliberate I believe, to those who hold that "Marriage" has one, and only one, meaning.
Since "gay marriage" cannot product biological offspring, sharing the DNA of both partners, it does not fit the traditional definition of marriage. It becomes a "special case".
Thus, clearly, "gays" do not want "equal rights" under the law, they want "special rights" under law.
They continue to insist on the term "marriage" when they know full well this provokes fierce opposition. Yet, they continue. One must ask, why? When civil unions would provide all the legal ties an protections they claim they want.
So. Another cave in by someone in a Democratic Administration.
An EPA guy tells the truth about enforcing laws aggressively, a few loud mouths on Big Oil's payroll (part time of course, full time they are Republican members of Congress) complain and whine about imagined wrongs and . . . apologies, tail tucking, and resignation . . . Sound familiar?
Ted Nugent and Alan West, two strident Ultra Right, Republican wackos, threaten the life of a sitting President of the United States and nothing is being done.
Nugent did this, among other places, it is reported, before an NRA gathering. Where, apparently, this is considered laudable.
These people should be arrested as they present a clear and present danger to the safety of the President. It was done for those who threatened Clinton and those who threatened Bush. No less is warranted, in this case.
By a CONservative majority the Supreme Court tells us it's just fine for persons arrested for trivial offenses to be humiliated and degraded by forced strip searches and body cavity searches.
All this for the "protection" of the keepers. Yes, we need to protect those gentles souls, armed to the teeth with Mace, Pepper Spray, Firearms, Tasers, Flash Bangs, Clubs, Batons and . . . wait, I need to catch my breath.
Ignoring, of course, that the arrested person is certain to be manacled to begin with.
We have seen, time and again, the so-called Conservatives will side with the Authoritarians, over the individual, regardless of their Rhetoric about individual Freedom.
Bow down to the Power of the State.
Gosh, what will Rush Limburgh have to say about this?
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