Thursday, March 11, 2004

Constitutional vandalism

I ran across this opinion piece while perusing the stories at the Hamster.

Washington - When President Bush called for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution banning same sex weddings, he warned that such a radical step was essential to "prevent the meaning of marriage from being changed forever."

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But Bush also didn't say that this is the seventh amendment he has embraced, reflecting breathtaking contempt for the principles embodied in the work of our Founding Fathers.

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Most of the Bush-backed amendments are designed to appease the Republican Party's conservative religious base by imposing that constituency's narrow views on all of us.


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Besides the flag burning amendment, Bush also has backed one to require a balanced budget! That's pretty funny.
But call me breathless, I had no idea that he had proposed or backed seven amendments to the constitution. Have we had enough yet?