King George the Cynical

The Democrats should seek to pass legialation regarding civil rights in civil unions only. Civil rights should never be denied to anyone, under the Constitution.

Leave the sacrament of marriage to the Churches.

Comment is free: Standards go up in smoke:

"President Bush's regression to his 'back to basics' culture war is not intended to enact the proposals he advocates. On the contrary, he and his senior political adviser, Karl Rove, 'the 'architect', as Bush calls him, really want them to fail.


Indeed, Bush knows that the two constitutional amendments he pushes - the family protection amendment banning gay marriage and the flag desecration amendment making flag-burning a federal crime - will not pass through the complicated process requiring approval by both houses of the Congress and three-quarters of the state legislatures.

Even Republicans supporting the anti-gay marriage amendment acknowledge it stands no chance of passing through Congress. The flag-burning amendment has been fruitlessly proposed every decade for more than 30 years. But in Bush's and Rove's calculations, the amendments may serve as inflammatory causes to rally the Republican rightwing base, dispirited, divided and disillusioned amid Bush's general political collapse.

The public at large, according to the latest polls, has little interest in these gambits, preferring that the president and the Congress focus on the Iraq war, the price of gasoline, immigration, and healthcare. "