More on the Anti-gay Amendment

Right-wing antigay activists are scarier than left-wing pro-gay-marriage activists. Give your average American a guy screaming "God Hates Fags" versus a gay couple in business suits hoping to get married and grow old together, and I think the gay couple wins most of the time.

Apparently, one of the big threats of gay marriage is that it creates "uncertainty." He mentions other "serious consequences throughout the country" that would accrue should gays be allowed to marry, but isn't very specific -- what, a run on wedding halls?

Imagine, say, the older gay woman whose partner lays dying of cancer, pleading with her fellow citizens not to strip her of the right to be by her partner's side. Imagine the gay couple who have jointly adopted a little boy, asking that their family not be torn apart. Imagine these people talking to their friends and neighbors, and those people talking to their own.

The opponents of this amendment will be pleading for tolerance, dignity, love, and compassion; for keeping existing families together and bringing new ones into being. It will be hard to look at these ordinary men and women and see them as a threat to marriage and family. Indeed, as this progresses, I think it will become increasingly hard to look at those who favor a federal marriage amendment and not see them as a threat to marriage and family.

- Nick Confessore - TAPPED

el - as long as you don’t have to buy a present, why should you care who gets married?

Added - A declaration of war against the United States Constitution.

Never before has the United State constitution been amended to rewrite discrimination into that sacred document. It took hundreds of years to amend the constitution to do away with discrimination against African-Americans (XIII, XIV, XV) and women (XIX), and now the President of the United States, here in the twenty-first century wants to rewrite discrimination into the United States Constitution. This is not only a declaration of war against gays and lesbians, as Andrew Sullivan writes, this is a declaration of war against the United States Constitution.

Democrats - "I believe the best way to protect gays and lesbians is through civil unions," Kerry said. "I believe the issue of marriage should be left to the states"

Edwards, campaigning in Georgia, where the state legislature is debating its own ban on gay marriage, said, "I don't personally support gay marriage myself. My position has always been that it's for the states to decide."