I'm with you on this one. I'm so right wing on foreign policy issues I scare Paul Wolfewitz, but Bush and the "Values Conservatives" really lose me on stuff like this. This crazed 'defense of marriage' demagoguery is like a campaign to crack down on witches or Indiana wanted to make math easier for kids by change the value of pi to 3. Heterosexual marriage could only be helped by the example of people who actually care enough about the idea to fight for it. I just don't believe new options under law would change many people's gender preference for a partner <s>
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/06/dobbs.june7/index.html>
>This man is an embarrassment.
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>I've heard about every slippery-slope argument about how same-sex marriage adversely affects the fundamental American family. I hope Congress slaps him silly for this one.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
