:|On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 01:09:53 +0000, truckinsp wrote:
:|
:|>>In a free society -- and the United States is still supposed to be a free
:|>>society -- the people are never required to ever make such a case. If the
:|>>state can't show a compelling reason for discrimination (with an emphasis
:|>>on "Compelling") then the state has no right to restrict the personal
:|>>liberties of the people. Any of the people. Any class, any goup. Even
:|>>people you don't like.
:|>
:|> I have been a Republican for just about all my life, but Bush supporting
:|> this "proposed" amendment to the Constitution is making me SERIOUSLY
:|> thinking about voting for Kerry just to stop HIM....when was the US
:|> Constitution EVER used as a bat to restrict any one group??? The
:|> Constitution has always been about giving citizens rights, not taking them
:|> away....
:|>
:|> Where are the successors to the Grand Old Party? Don't people who think
:|> like Goldwater and Ike exist any more??? And when did the Grand Old Party
:|> become more concerned with what goes on in our drawers than what goes on
:|> in our wallets?
:|>
:|> I just don't give a DAMN what gays do....there really isn't that many of
:|> them and what they do really doesn't affect me or most of the people of
:|> the US....so why is the Republican Party wasting so much money and time on
:|> that crap????
:|
:|I hear you, brother. I, too, am a long-standing Republican. I have
:|joined the "anyone-but-Bush in 2004" camp. The Federal Marriage Amendment
:|is just one more reason to get the Christian theocrats out of office. I
:|don't care if Kerry eats live puppies for breakfast; he's got my vote.