justification for discrimination?

[low_delta]

Regarding the gay marriage amendment, president Bush said, "Ages of experience have taught us that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society."

Do I even need to point out the stupidity of this statement? Lets say that the sentence is, in itself, correct. What does this have to do with homosexual couples? Allowing homosexuals to marry will weaken heterosexual marriages? (Are they afraid of something?) Does Bush think there is only a limited number of marriage licenses, and teh gays would take them all? WTF?

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[eyelid.livejournal.com]

Does Bush think there is only a limited number of marriage licenses, and teh gays would take them all?
You mean there's NOT?? :o

homosexuals to marry will weaken heterosexual marriages?
Not only will my marriage be weakened if gays can marry, also I will cease to care for the welfare of my children, and I will start to work to destabilize society.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

You said it!

And your post today was hilarious!

[eyelid.livejournal.com]

even better...

[rivendweller.livejournal.com]

Nothing that man does makes sense. I can't listen to him anymore. It seems everything he says is either a lie or political manipulation of some sort. Thank goodness this stupid idea appears doomed to defeat. Not enough votes in the senate.

[ravengirl.livejournal.com]

there isn't any logic to the kind of "thinking" done by the fundamentalist sector. it's all about "family" and "war" and "wars on things we don't approve of". it's all talk, basically.

i know it's frustrating and i haven't a clue what the answers are.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

It seems like the reason Bush's statements don't make sense, is that he doesn't believe them either, because he's just pandering for the religious vote. Note that he's doing this now, when there's no hope of passage, and that his stance seems to contradict his earlier statements.

[vocalista001.livejournal.com]

Ages of experience have taught us that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children

Pffft.

When they outlaw heterosexual divorce for couples who've had a family, I suppose I might consider the logic of statements like this.

Legislating what constitutes a family based on 'logic' is dangerous territory...especially when we get into the fact that the human body can procreate without a marriage license. Heck without copulation, even.

A random thought...Gay marriage would certainly bring about a whole new clientele for the divorce lawyers...