Let he without sin
July 30, 2003
Yahoo! News - Bush Shuns Calls to Legalize Gay Marriage (0001E7)
Oh please. Here's a few choice words from the prez: (0001E8)
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman and I believe we ought to codify that one way or the other and we have lawyers looking at the best way to do that. (0001E9)
I am mindful that we're all sinners and I caution those who may try to take a speck out of the neighbor's eye when they got a log in their own...I think it is important for our society to respect each individual, to welcome those with good hearts. (0001EA)
On the other hand, that does not mean that someone like me needs to compromise on the issue of marriage. (0001EB)
"Someone like me?" Who the hell is that? Something that only reacts in fear is not a person. (0001EC)
I was talking with some folk the other day about Bush's ability to call on religion to justify his actions. Evoking Jesus or God is a classic use of the deferment of responsibility principle: calling on a higher or external power to be the motivator of action so that later when things go wrong it is possible to say, "It wasn't me, it's Jesus!" or "It's not me, it's the Enron corporate culture that encouraged outrageous avarice." (0001ED)
I suspect with a little work we could codify this principle. Maybe somebody already has? (0001EE)
Comments
What galls me is the use of religion to push any political agenda...anywhere...but especially on the national scale. (0001EF)
This country was founded on the principle of freedom of religion. That doesn't mean freedom as long as it coincides with the moral majority party's view. Might does not make right in this. Perhap's it's just way too Libertarian of a view, but why is it so wrong to let same sex couples share insurance and be able to inherit and to be the next of kin and such ? When you get right down to it, that's ultimately what the legal representation of marriage is. Everything else is completely up to the people that get married, really. It doesn't hurt anyone at all and in fact, just might help get medical coverage for more people, which supposedly is a goal of the white house, anyway, right ? (0001EG)
It's a simplistic view, but it's not completely wrong, I think. (0001EH)
If I'm not careful, I might start ranting. (0001EI)
Oh, and btw, I've fixed my LJ options so you can post... (0001EJ)
Well, I showed HIM. I didn't get married for 32 years! Whew! Society was surely a lot more stable when I finally stopped livin' in sin. I'm sure you all noticed a difference. Can someone get this log out of my eye? (0001EK)