As Pitts states, the right for gays and lesbians to marry the person of their choosing will come to pass someday. It is inevitable. There may be set-backs along the way, there always are in any progressive movement of this kind, but it will happen eventually.
So, as the great Minnesota poet Bob Dylan was said, "Please get out of the way if you can't lend a hand, for the times they are a changin'"
Chuck Muth - from Citizen Outreach just sent the following to his "Goldwater list".
RELIGIOUS RIGHT DOWN ON W
Despite being one of them and signing their formerly #1 legislative issue - a ban on partial-birth abortions - President Bush is still getting dumped on by religious right conservatives who have their knickers all up in a twist over the president's failure to openly embrace and push for a federal marriage amendment to the Constitution banning gay marriage, reports the Washington Times' Ralph Hallow on Friday. And much to the consternation of the White House, a number of religious right leaders are...here's a surprise...threatening to stay home in November.
It's a threat issued by many Christian conservative leaders over and over again; more often than the boy who cried "wolf." Nevertheless, presidential adviser Karl Rove is widely known to be obsessed with turning out some 6 million evangelicals in 2004 who he believes stayed home for the 2000 elections. So expect the president to cave in to the threats and come out in favor of the anti-gay constitutional amendment any day now, despite the fact that no matter what he does, it will never be enough for folks such as Gary Bauer, Sandy Rios and Jim Dobson.
Pandering can be such an ugly sport.
EY: They have been whining about staying home for Bush's reelection ever since Bush was elected. They regularly howl when Bush does something like appoint an openly gay man to some federal job.
Meanwhile, though there's talk that the 20 commandments judge - Roy Moore - might run as a third party candidate for President.
This so called "base" of the Republican party is more trouble than its worth. In the old days they could be kept under the radar. Now with the Internet, they can't. Meanwhile if Bush does more to pander to the Leviticus Crowd he risks alienating moderates.
Eva Young Near North Minneapolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog is up: http://lloydletta.blogspot.com
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