February 25, 2004

Curious

Isn't slamming President Bush for supporting a Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage a bit like lambasting your State's governor for scoffing at the Commerce Department's latest changes to the CAFE standards? I mean, the president has zero input on a Constitutional amendment:

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress

Posted by Jeff at February 25, 2004 10:17 PM | Link Cosmos
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See, there you go again - getting all TECHNICAL on us and quoting things like THE LAW to support your position. How dare you!

(Too bad California state judges don't do this)

Posted by: Mark L on February 26, 2004 08:35 AM

But, but... it's Bush see... and we must defeat him...see?

Posted by: Brian on February 26, 2004 04:51 PM

Wait, isn't that exactly why most people are upset with Bush on this issue?

He keeps talking about this amendment knowing full well he can do nothing about it. He's throwing around the idea for political purposes, which is making people on both sides of the gay marriage debate pretty uncomfortable.

Posted by: Chris on March 4, 2004 07:23 PM

Well, he is a politician, so I guess you could say that he eats breakfast for political purposes. I'm not sure why there would be any outrage in any politician being political as a general rule.

In any case, the President is still a citizen, so he gets the same right to voice his opinion as the rest of us. It's just that when he does so, more people hear him.

I don't favor the amendment; but nor do I favor judges making law. I can understand where the President is coming from, even if I don't think that his proposed solution is a useful one. But it doesn't upset me that it's not a useful solution, because it doesn't matter in the end what his proposed solution is.

On the other hand, both Texas Senators and my Representative all favor the amendment, and that I care about.

Posted by: Jeff on March 5, 2004 07:32 AM
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