Trying to figure out a nice way to ban gay marriage

Is it really news to anyone that Bush doesn’t like gay people? Kevin Drum has pointed me to the president’s remarks today about gay marriage which pretty much fall in line with everything else he’s ever said on the subject:

Yes, I am mindful that we’re all sinners, and I caution those who may try to take the speck out of their neighbor’s eye when they got a log in their own. I think it’s very important for our society to respect each individual, to welcome those with good hearts, to be a welcoming country. On the other hand, that does not mean that somebody like me needs to compromise on an issue such as marriage. And that’s really where the issue is heading here in Washington, and that is the definition of marriage. I believe in the sanctity of marriage. I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman. And I think we ought to codify that one way or the other. And we’ve got lawyers looking at the best way to do that.

I think by that last part he means “I want to ban homos from having the same rights as normal folks and we’re looking into ways of forcing this belief on others without making me look like an asshole.”


posted by greg on July 30, 2003 @ 3:11 pm

4 comments

  1. Does anyone here ever watch True Stories of the Highway Patrol, or COPS? My favorite episodes are the ones with high speed chases. It seems at least once a week that a chase involves someone fleeing the cops who just happens to have a buddy in the car with him. The funny thing about it is that usually, it turns out that the passenger had little to nothing at all to do with the driver’s decision to freak out and drag race the cops. He just happened to be stupid enough to let his friend drive him around, completely unaware how his friend would react when the shit hit the fan.

    What makes it worse is that the poor bastard usually shares whatever punishment his friend receives - if the car crashes, the friend might die, and if the guy finally surrenders, both people are smacked down hard, forced to the ground, yelled at, aimed at, etc. Of course, things generally get straightened out, but on these TV shows this only happens at the end of the episode in voice over narration.

    As an American, I kind of feel like that passenger right now. Of course, on COPS, there usually isn’t another friend in the backseat celebrating the situation and yelling at the unwilling passenger to shut up and stop stabbing the crazy ass driver in the back.

    Comment by Ross Angeles — July 30, 2003 @ 5:11 pm

  2. Ross, you are so gay.

    Comment by Dan — July 30, 2003 @ 7:56 pm

  3. “…without making me look like an asshole.”

    too late.

    Comment by Jonathan Lamb — July 31, 2003 @ 9:36 am

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