Posted by Juan Non-Volokh:
What America?
Thomas Friedman woke up after the election [1]wondering what country
he was living in:
what troubled me yesterday was my feeling that this election was
tipped because of an outpouring of support for George Bush by
people who don't just favor different policies than I do - they
favor a whole different kind of America. We don't just disagree on
what America should be doing; we disagree on what America is. Is it
a country that does not intrude into people's sexual preferences
and the marriage unions they want to make? Is it a country that
allows a woman to have control over her body? Is it a country where
the line between church and state bequeathed to us by our Founding
Fathers should be inviolate?
William Sjostrom places Friedman's comments [2]in perspective:
Surely Friedman is right. Bush is the first president since James
Polk to oppose gay marriage, a right Kerry swore to protect. And
only last year, Bush and the Republican Congress overturned three
centuries of legalized abortion, not to mention amending the
Constitution so that the presidency was limited to Southern
Baptists, Mormons, and Catholics who swore fealty to Cardinal
Ratzinger.
(Link via [3]Bainbridge)
References
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/04/opinion/04friedman.html?ex=1257310800&en=141d38656c8a9295&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland
2. http://www.atlanticblog.com/archives/001721.html#001721
3. http://www.professorbainbridge.com/
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