The deficit is out of control. Don't even get me started on what a stupid-ass idea this moonbase and Mars shit is. But please, 1.5 billion dollars for this?
Bush Plans $1.5 Billion Drive for Promotion of Marriage
For months, administration officials have worked with conservative groups on the proposal, which would provide at least $1.5 billion for training to help couples develop interpersonal skills that sustain "healthy marriages."
The officials said they believed that the measure was especially timely because they were facing pressure from conservatives eager to see the federal government defend traditional marriage, after a decision by the highest court in Massachusetts. The court ruled in November that gay couples had a right to marry under the state's Constitution.
Of course, that's what it's all about. Keepin them gays from gettin' hitched. Because you know what that will lead to. Uh, wait, hold on I had something here.
No one has ever given me a single goddman reason to oppose gay marriage. Not one. And then there's this.
Some 61 percent of respondents in a CBS News/New York Times poll said they were against gay marriage, up from 55 percent in July, and only 34 percent said they favor gay marriage, down from 40 percent five months ago.
More than half now favor an amendment to the U.S. Constitution defining marriage as only between a man and a woman.
At 49 percent, the percentage that thinks homosexual relations should not be legal is the highest recorded since the CBS News/New York Times Poll started asking the question in 1992. As recently as July, 54 percent thought such relations should be legal, while 39 percent thought they should not. Now, 41 percent think homosexual relations should be legal.
Yeah. Let's pass a law against being gay. That'll stop 'em.
You know when all these conservative fucks like Rick Santorum talk about how the majority of Americans view marriage as this that and that other thing, I want to punch them. I don't give a shit if 95 percent of the population thinks "homosexual relations" shoulf be illegal. Major strides in civil rights are never done by taking a straw poll.
I can't believe that half of this country thinks homosexual relations should be illegal. To me it represents yet another new low.
1.5 billion to satisfy anti-gay bigots
And the jackasses who support this kind of thing
Posted by mike at January 13, 2004 11:22 PMWhen I think of marriage, I think of it being between a man and a woman. Webster's dictionary defines it as the "relation between husband and wife".
I'm in favor of equal rights for homosexual unions, but I have a problem with the word marriage itself getting expanded to include same sex partnerships. Right now we have no single word for "gay marriage" but I think we aught to. It would be brilliant if such a term could be invented rather than simply appending an adjective to an old word.
This language distinction may appear trivial, or could even be seen as offensive by linguistically separating formal homosexual and heterosexual unions. But there is a fundamental distinction between the two. Homosexual unions – which have never formally been recognized by the English language – merit their own word.
Language serves to organize concepts and I’d like to think our own is capable of adapting to our needs.
Posted by: Cam on January 14, 2004 11:39 PM