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FMA? That's a bad idea.   
02:53pm 05/08/2003
 
mood: bitchy
So, it looks like there's growing support for the Federal Marriage Amendment. After the Congress gets back from their break, they're planning to deal with it.

Hopefully a few heads will cool down in the interim. And here's why . . .

. . . FMA is a TERRIBLE IDEA.

The Constitution currently grants states control of licenses/contracts within their borders, with very few overriding exceptions that switch power to the feds. These exceptions are things that break other amendments - the 14th being the biggie, as used in regards to interracial marriage.

Altering this because a few states might legalize gay marriage is putting the baby out with the bathwater. While I am not obsessed with states' rights, this is one situation where the state really should have the right to decide for itself. This is not the sort of thing we're supposed to change the Constitution over, folks.		  
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Lawrence v. Texas   
01:48pm 02/07/2003
 
mood: contemplative
music: _32 Flavors_, Ani Difranco
What’s interesting, in the aftermath of the Lawrence v. Texas case, is the way conservative pundits are ( responding . . . )		  
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Inauguratory Posting   
08:50pm 02/06/2003
 
mood: quixotic
music: _Mambo No. 5_, Lou Bega
Pet peeve of the day:

The Christian Right's continued insistence that the United States is, ahem, “a Christian country”.

Look, I have nothing against Christianity, per se, but the United States is not a Christian nation. We were never intended to be. The God referenced in the Declaration, on our money, etc. etc. is “Nature’s God”. Although one could certainly consider “Nature’s God” to be the Christian Jevovah, it tain’t necessar’ly so. Most of the Founders were tepid Christians at best, with the major players generally subscribing to Deism, as opposed to organized faith.

In fact, the Founders wanted a nation with a firm separation between church and state. While I doubt they would have been overly zealous about Christmas trees on public property, the Treaty of Tripoli makes clear that the “Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion”. (Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli, ratified on June 10th, 1797.)

And yet they claim the Founders would be appalled at the drift of the United States from Christianity? Like hell they would have.		  
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