Don’t Bite!
Last year, George W. Bush pushed hard for a Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA) to outlaw gay marriage. Blogger Andrew Sullivan takes comfort from learning that this drive to alter the U.S. Constitution was only a cynical election-year ploy, not an honest expression of Bush’s beliefs.
The FMA has gone unmentioned by Bush since the election – and it appears more and more like a pre-election ploy rather than a principled stand. (Of course, that’s a relief but it’s also an indication of how bald-faced a political maneuver this was in the first place). But this piece of sanity from the President deserves praise and reciprocation from those of us who support equality in marriage.
Tom Tomorrow thinks Sullivan is mistaken:
Remember Charlie the tuna? The bespectacled tunafish who, for reasons which are never made entirely clear, wishes nothing more than to be caught by the Starkist trawler (represented by a cartoon fishing hook) and, presumably, chopped up and served as some child’s lunchmeat? That’s Andrew Sullivan. Like Charlie, he longs for acceptance into a system that is designed to destroy him, and like Charlie, he is destined for perpetual rejection.