Bush Casts Aside Calls to Legalize Gay Marriage: President Bush said Wednesday he has government lawyers working on a law that would define marriage as a union between a woman and a man, casting aside calls to legalize gay marriages. "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," the president said a wide-ranging news conference at the White House Rose Garden.
Um ... you know, perhaps it's me, but I was pretty sure we had one of those already. That weird little thing called the Federal Defense of Marriage Act. I mean, maybe he's just pretending that, because it was enacted under Clinton, it doesn't exist, but I'm pretty sure it's actually there.
To be sure, I think, although I wouldn't swear to it, that he's trying to do an end-run around his party's conservatives, who want to enact a constitutitional amendment to that end. But surely enacting Yet Another Law to do what the first one already has would be rather pointless. The only way to ensure that the Supreme Court keeps its mitts off the question -- which is the real agenda behind all of this -- is to either enact a constitutional amendment, or to amend the Judiciary Act itself, placing marriage on the list of items that the Supreme Court is not competent to touch. Interestingly, such explicit overrules of Court decisions are relatively infrequent; you'd think that as often as Congresses of various stripes get pissed off at Courts of various eras, it would happen more than it does. Apparently, Congress just doesn't feel that it should do such things very often. Who knew?
Posted by iain at July 30, 2003 10:52 AMComments
What the DOMA does is simply DEFINE marriage as being between a man and a woman, and it makes it so that states do not have to recognize gay marriages or civil unions performed in any other state. What Bush and his friends want is a law that will OUTLAW any type of civil union or gay marriage, in any state. We don't have one of those. Yet.
Posted by Len at August 2, 2003 05:05 AMPreviously, this notice was sent out to the authoritative websites listed as "humorous" on a major anti-Bush compilation website. It should be self-evident why that would be only sensible.
After some thought, however, it was decided that limiting this notification to only so-called humorous sites was silly. If certain humorous websites can be considered authoritative, then surely certain "serious" websites should also be likewise. So, that's why you're received this notice.
Now then, if you'd like to know what the doofus should've said, please consider clicking on the hyperlink below. warmest regards
Your Friend A Alexander "Bogey" Stella considered the following article
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Oh, dear Lord, I screwed up. I didn't include the hyperlink in the previous comment. Well, here it is in its entirety:
Previously, this notice was sent out to the authoritative websites listed as "humorous" on a major anti-Bush compilation website. It should be self-evident why that would be only sensible.
After some thought, however, it was decided that limiting this notification to only so-called humorous sites was silly. If certain humorous websites can be considered authoritative, then surely certain "serious" websites should also be likewise. So, that's why you're received this notice.
Now then, if you'd like to know what the doofus should've said, please consider clicking on the hyperlink below. warmest regards
Your Friend A Alexander "Bogey" Stella considered the following article
interesting and wanted to send it to you.
''Bring'em on,'' said the doofus bombastically
(Date: 2003-07-28 12:57:42)
Topic: A. Alexander Stella
URL: http://www.bcvoice.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=130
