>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>

The proposed Constitutional amendment "defending" marriage went down in flames in the Senate yesterday, as everyone knew it would. It was just a sop from Bush to the conservative base with an iffy-looking election coming up.

Please define "right wing on foreign policy issues." I guess I don't know you that well because I wouldn't have guessed that. If you're out there with the Cheneys and Rumsfelds, viewing the rest of the world as existing to serve U.S. interests, well, we part company. I might even stop listening to Rusted Root ;-) (Thanks again for that recommendation so many moons ago -- I still listen to them).