February 27, 2004
Andrew Sullivan and the Marriage Amendment
Andrew Sullivan has a great array of emailers' reactions on the Marriage Amendment issue.
A few points.
One: I have linked to Andrew's latest weekly archive above; read through all of the emails. If you think that all conservatives (or even just grudging Bush respecters) are bigots, or racists, or white, or homophobes, these emails paint a wonderfully different picture.
Two: To those who are aching to codify what marriage is as an amendment of the US Constitution, then let's ask Americans to vote on a definition of marriage, not for an up-or-down vote on whether marriage is strictly heterosexual. I see three choices: leave the Constitution alone, define marriage as any union of two consenting adults, define marriage as any union of a consenting man and woman. OK, vote!