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Sunday, February 29, 2004 |
 Twisted: there's an ad in the New York Times today congratulating President Bush for backing an amendment to the Constitution to deny marriage to gay and lesbian people. The ad compares him to President Lincoln, and is signed by many of the groups and people that I have pledged, for Lent, to study and try to understand.
So, please help me understand this: President Lincoln strove to protect the rights of a minority at the costs of thousands of lives lost in the Civil War, and indeed, of his own life. President Bush is the first President ever to attempt to restrict the rights of a minority group with a Constitutional amendment.
The link, I guess is the courts: Lincoln defied the Supreme Court's infamous Dred Scott decision, whereas President Bush styles his initiative as opposing 'activist judges.'
I find this an incredibly twisted comparison: pandering to prejudice takes no moral courage, in my mind. Standing up for a powerless minority takes enormous moral courage, the likes of which we see perhaps a handful of times in a century, if that. Please, help me, understand this. Am I wrong? Is this just not meanness and hate? |
Updated 4/16/04; 1:12:44 PM
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Chris Gulker'sUpdated 4/16/04; 1:12:44 PM
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