now we’re driving from paris to italy. and we’re in bavaria.
and that seems a bit odd, cos i didn’t know that the fastest way to get from paris to italy was through bavaria.
but i guess that i was wrong.
and bill frist, the senate republican leader, wants to draft a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage in the united states. it’s sometimes startling to be reminded of the cultural differences that exist in the united states.
i don’t want to get into name-calling, but i sometimes forget just how intolerant and anachronistic the right-wing, conservative agenda can be.
and how right-wing legislators and pundits in america almost see themselves as christian crusaders, convinced of their ‘rightness’. it troubles me that the right-wing republicans in the united states are eager to remove the government from places where it might do some good (education, environmental protection, funding for the arts, etc) and forcibly put the government in places where it has no business residing (the bedroom, etc).
bill frist talks about establishing a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage because of the ‘sacrament’ of marriage.
please correct me if i’m wrong, but don’t ‘sacraments’ exist in the liturgical world of the church? and isn’t there a very clear seperation of church and state in the united states?
it seems dangerous and potentially illegal to try to justify legislation or an amendment based upon the determining criteria of something being a ‘sacrament’.
the right wing in the united states continue to terrify me, especially as they seem to be advancing their anachronistic agenda with the apathetic complicity of the mainstream media, and the apathetic complicity of the general public.
hopefully at some point in the near future the right-wing in the united states will be reduced to occupying the marginal side-lines that they occupy in most other developed countries.
it’s naive of me to hope for this, i know, but i’m nothing if not naive.
thanks,
moby