Amendment Targets Gay Marriage in Massachusetts

News:

This week, Massachusetts lawmakers will consider a constitutional amendment intended to roll back the state’s law, unique in the country, which allows same-sex couples to wed. The initiative has been championed by Republican governor Mitt Romney, said to considering a presidential bid, and several of the state’s high-ranking Catholic officials. The bishops have rejected criticism of the amendment as discriminatory, saying same-sex couples are suffering from “an exaggerated sense of entitlement” in believing they deserve the same rights as other American citizens. 165 prominent business and civic leaders, including the mayor of Boston, have taken out an ad in Boston papers urging the state legislature to reject the amendment.

"Exaggerated sense of entitlement"

Right. So homosexuals are seen as wanting more than they're due.

Y'know, the African-Americans want a lot of the same things. In fact, they already have most of them (except maybe voting rights, but that's a topic for a different thread).

The pagans do too, and have most of them (except maybe the right to put their religious symbol on a veteran's grave marker).

Spanish-speaking immigrants? Same thing.

Native Hawaiians? Yep.

Native Americans in general? Mmm-hmm.

What minorities am I forgetting here? There must be at least a half-dozen more. And they all pretty much want one thing: the rights of citizens.

So tell me...why don't they have them? Oh, that's right. Silly me. They don't have them because neo-cons don't think they should. After all, the line has to be drawn somewhere, right? Otherwise people start forgetting there's a difference between the haves and the have-nots...excuse me, the neo-con base and everyone else. My bad.

And ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make ye flee.

By nonexistent manJuly 10, 2006 - 9:54am