From Phil Hulst comes this Atlanta Journal-Constitution article concerning one reporter’s greatest fear: that Americans, tired of all the gay news headlines lately, will express their weariness by backing efforts to ban gay marriage.
Like the reporter who wrote the article, I’m stunned (and I’m sure the Bush administration is greatly relieved) that the gay marriage issue is attracting more attention than the mishandled and misguided invasion of Iraq.
Never mind the fact that U.S. troops are being picked off one-by-one on a daily basis. Forget the fact that angry crowds of protesters are attacking our helicopters with RPGs. The Republicans are, I’m sure, relieved to discover an issue tailor-made for polarizing America and turning attention away from the rapidly deteriorating scenario in the Middle East.
Forget the deficit. Forget unemployment. Forget the economy. Concern yourself, America, with far more important things: like amending the US Constitution to prevent two people who love each other from being married in the legal sense of the word.
Be prepared. As election day looms — and as Iraq becomes more and more of a budget-breaking, life-taking mess — the Republicans will jump on the Stop Gay Marriage horse and ride it up and down every street in the land, beating it for all its worth.
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