Un-Elected President Shows Contempt for US Citizens
The current Un-Elected President of the United States has the temerity to undermine the Constitutional balance of powers not only through his decisions to disregard the statutory laws and the constitutional laws of this country, but also in his sneering disregard for the legitimacy of our US Courts.
Bush himself had been mostly mum on gay marriage since his re-election. But now, with his poll numbers in a nose dive and even his most enthusiastic supporters grousing, Bush took up the cause in his radio address Saturday; an amendment is needed because “activist courts have left our nation with no other choice,” he explained. Can Gay Marriage Help GOP? - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com
This is a significant problem. This discussion of “activist courts” is a polemic that is utterly lacking in merit. It challenges the heart of the US judicial system and suggests that the system should be changed. Embedded in the suggestion of change (and explicitly stated by some) is the suggestion that our US Courts should be evicerated.
If there is something that needs to be addressed in the function of our US Courts, specific charges should be brought against specific judges. If these judges are so badly behaved, then impeach them. Charges of impeachment can be brought against any federal judge.
But the Un-Elected President does not stop with his contempt for our US Court system and our US Constitution. The Un-Elected President also shows contempt for the will of the people by suggesting that the will of the people should be abrogated by this amendment to our US Constitution. In addition, even his cynical attempts to drive voter support for his Un-Elected Presidency is misguided and shows the blind follower mentalitiy he shows for the Religious Right.
Pew polls show a 10-point jump in support for gay marriage since 2004. And Bush pollster Matthew Dowd doubts it was decisive last time around. “It didn’t drive turnout in 2004,” he says. “That is urban legend.” Turnout was the same in states with bans on the ballot and those without, Dowd says. GOP consultant Grover Norquist also questions how gay marriage plays as an electoral issue. Though social conservatives vote for marriage bans, it’s not clear whether that will translate into votes for GOP candidates. ibid
The man is a menace to our way of life.
Posted in Church vs State, GLBT Rights, Law and the Courts, Party Politics
June 5th, 2006 at 10:10
From my read on the issue of gay marriage, it’s largely determined by age.
People over 50 seem more resistant to accepting the notion of gay people marrying, whereas people under 50 don’t care one way of the other.
This may be in part to the fact most people under 50 report knowing at least one gay person — sometimes a family member or a co-worker, so we’re de-mystified to this demographic.
If this holds true, then as people over 50 die off, American society will evolve and I predict gay marriage equity will become a reality.