well said. I agree. Republicans are supposed to be for state's rights anyhoo....
If these groups really do sabotage SS reform for this somewhat unimportant idea it will be absolutely discraceful. I think they will loose a lot of allies and make a lot of enemies and it will start to splinter the republican party.
The democratic party has to be looking to ways to splinter the economic and social wings of the republican party and must be loving this... :(
I diagree. This is an important idea. It won 11-0 on election day. Bush is supposed to be championing it, but he is not. It helped get him elected. This is one way to get his attention, since social security reform is probably one of the three biggest ideas he has.
Whether the government will acknowledge Man & Man/Women & Women unions as legitimate marriages SHOULD NOT be a state issue. This is a federal matter if ever there was one. Personally, I have always thought the idea of augmenting the US Constitution to limit the"rights" of its citizenry as repugnant, however this is a very different matter. If the US Constitutuion can be used to outlaw slavery, then it can be used to outlaw Homosexual marriage, both unnatural and socially malignant institutions. Homosexuality is, like it or not, seen as morally acceptable by a large number of Americans. It is an unfortunate truth, IMAO, that the Federal government must now legislate morality because our religious & social institutions were too weak to do so.