I’m posting because I’ve now received over a thousand. And because as a document of the initial response to the president’s shocking embrace of discrimination in the Constitution, they’re worth recording. Most are appalled, angry, hurt, betrayed. Some, obviously, are not. Here’s a selection of the more recent ones:
“I can feel your depression through the computer monitor, but if it makes you feel any better, I’ve been married to my wife for 26 years, and let me tell you something, you ain’t missing a goddamn thing.”
“I am (or, I never thought I’d say it, was?) a dyed-in-the-wool Republican who (much like you) has spent the last two years proselytizing my liberal friends for GW. I am also a woman who has been in a committed same-sex relationship for 25 years. I feel like I was body-slammed today. What a quandary: I don’t know for sure that the Dems will be worse in the war on terror, but I do now know for sure the Republicans will be worse in protecting my equal rights. This is just a depressing day.”
“I cannot express more eloquently than you already have my disgust with President Bush’s support of the Federal Marriage Ammendment. I feel betrayed. I have always felt more comfortable with the Republican take on issues, even though I knew that Democrats tend to be better on gay issues. Until today, though, I found defense and fiscal issues more important than gay issues. Bush’s support of the FMA trumps everything else. I now have no choice but to vote for whichever Democrat wins the nomination. I blame Bush for stealing the party that I called home. I cannot foresee when next I’ll vote for another Republican.”
“I would rather not amend the Constitution as President Bush proposes. In an ideal world, I don’t think the Constitution was really meant to prescribe the definition of marriage.
However, those of us who oppose so-called “gay marriage” feel we have no options left.
The rogue judges in Massachusetts and the arrogant, law-breaking mayor of San Francisco make it clear that same-sex “marriage” advocates will stop at nothing to impose their perversity on America.
Your hunger for anal intercourse and official state affirmation of it — even to the point of deeming your sexual behavior a reason to “marry”! — trumps your respect for fundamental American values. Your perverse sexual ethics have led inevitably to perverse and destructive political ethics.
All of this has led me to conclude that you and your sodomy-loving cohorts are totalitarians, plain and simple.
And you must be stopped.
If that takes a Constitutional amendment, so be it. It’s regrettable, but that’s the way it goes.”
The Dish 