Sunday, June 11, 2006

Marriage Protection Amendment

In between loads of wash I was reading the Hartford Courant and in the commentary section of the paper they had an interesting article from the authors of "Gay Marriage: For Better or For Worse? What We've Learned from the Evidence".

They brought up several points about the Marriage Protection Amendment and the one that caught my attention was about divorce and co-habitation. If the President and the Republicans are all so fired up to protect marriage then they would ban divorce and strip any benefits that straight couples that are living together receive. To not to include them in the Marriage Protection Amendment is nothing more than out and out bigotry against same sex marriages.

And we all know that this whole marriage amendment thing had a snowballs chance in hell in passing, that it was all for show. That it just tied up the Senate for a week and kept them from doing anything more important like passing the budget or taking up the problems in Iraq or the energy crisis.

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