ok, so you’re the president.
you started a war and it’s going terribly and the country in which the war was started, iraq, is on the verge of civil war.
you’ve created a huge deficit.
iran is threatening to disrupt the oil flow out of the middle east.
your own party is mired in indictments and in-fighting.
you have disastrously low poll numbers.
gas prices are at an all time high.
in other words, your presidency is a disaster.
so what do you do?
you propose a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, even though you know that it will never in a million years pass the senate or the states(you need, basically, 2/3rds of the senators and the states to ratify a new constitutional amendment).
why?
cos you’re bored?
cos you’re trying to belatedly re-endear yourself to the reactionary and atavistic religious right, who are en masse about to give up on you?
cos you want to try to distract people and the media away from the myriad things that are going wrong with your presidency?
all of the above?
i mean, i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again, but if the religious right really cared about the sanctity of marriage wouldn’t they try to make divorce illegal?
it’s ironic, the religious right love ronald reagan, but he was a divorcee, as was nancy.
let’s just add this to the pile of nonsensical right-wing paradoxes, similar to the right wing paradox of being pro-life but pro-death penalty and pro-war.
or pro-christian but pro-business and pro-capitalism.
pro-god but anti-environmentalism(seems like god might’ve had a hand in creating the environment, no?).
and so on.
i wish that someone would put out a book called:
‘the nutty paradoxes of the right wing in the united states’.
one of my all time favorite right-wing paradoxes is:
‘the government has no right to tell me how to teach my children or what to do with my guns or my tax-dollars, but it’s ok if the government tells other people what books they can or can’t read and what they can or can’t consensually do in the privacy of their own homes. but don’t tell me what i can or can’t consensually do in the privacy of my own home. just tell other people what they can or can’t do. you know, those people i disagree with.’
i would like to say this to the right-wing people who read my journal: freedom cuts both ways, even regarding things you might disagree with.
if you want the government to leave you alone to home school your children and to believe in creationism then you have to respect other people’s rights to have same sex relationships and believe in whatever they choose to believe in.
oh, this is a political journal entry.
and george w. bush is a terrible president.
even the right-wing should be able to agree on that.
-moby
