"A Hopeful and Decent Society"
Of all the doublethink from the Bush Administration -- the war is going well, the economy is great, and so on -- this latest has to be the worst of all:
President Bush will renew a quest in his second term for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage as essential to a "hopeful and decent" society, his top political aide said on Sunday...So let me see if I have this straight: by amending the Constitution to preemptively take away rights from a class of citizens -- something never before done in our nation's history -- Republicans will create a "hopeful and decent society.""If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal, and the ideal is that marriage ought to be, and should be, a union of a man and a woman," Bush political aide Karl Rove told "Fox News Sunday."
The truly frightening thing is that given the passage of all 11 anti-gay marriage state ballot initiatives last week, I'd say there's a good chance the President and Karl Rove -- the Republicans' Clarence Beeks -- will get their way.
What is happening to my country?
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I think it's exceeding unlikely that the constitutional amendment will pass. All amendments to date have gone the standard route of getting a two-thirds vote in Congress and then passage by three quarters of the states. Even in the House, there isn't close to a two-thirds majority for this one, and in the Senate I doubt it'd even get a majority at all.
This could conceivably pass if it used the state convention method, but nobody's ever done that and no one has any idea how that would work.
Posted by: Eric Albert | November 7, 2004 08:27 PM