The President — my President, the man who leads my country — announced today that defending the USA against my desire to marry my partner is to be made a “priority.”
Clyde and I have lived our lives openly in the Deep South for more than ten years. How strange, after all this time, to have th
How long since you’ve actually read the Constitution of the United States?
If it’s been a while, I think you’ll be surprised. The Constitution is an elegant little document, designed by its authors to fulfill the following purposes:
1) Perfect the union of the states
2) Establish justice
3) Insure domestic tranquility
4) Provide for the common defense
5) Promote general welfare, and
6) Secure the “blessings of Liberty”
for all citizens of the United States.
Amendments to the Constitution have, again and again, testified to our nation’s desire to see its people treated equally and fairly. How then, within these last few weeks, has the idea of a Federal Marriage Amendment — essentially an attempt to codify as law a religiously-based prejudice against a very specific group of Americans — become the centerpiece of the Republican party’s election campaign?
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