Apalling. Bush, that is. He choose this week to come out in support of–fulfilling a campaign promise made back in ‘o4–an amendment to the Constitution banning same sex marriage. The timing could not be crueler. Twenty-five years ago this week AIDS began to appear in this country.
The religious right could not have been more pleased. I remember a number of talibaptists coming out declaring that this was “God’s Wrath” on the homosexuals and those who would tolerate their perversions. After a quarter century of damping the fires of unreasoning hostility and getting to the point where we now see AIDS as a disease rather than some apocolyptic condemnation from a ficticious super being, Bush times his promise-keeping on gay marriage for this week!
Political opportunism doesn’t come any more raw and cold-blooded.
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