Divisions

So, you know, Bush continues (in the SotU address) to press for a Constitutional ammendment to ban same-sex mariage. I was all ready to write something up, but I read Andrew Sullivan's take. I'll just post what he wrote - as he's done the work, and I agree with him.. The words below are Sullivan's.

AN APPALLING CONJUNCTION: The preamble to his attack on gay unions is truly a low-point in this president's rhetorical campaign against a minority of Americans:

Our second great responsibility to our children and grandchildren is to honor and to pass along the values that sustain a free society. So many of my generation, after a long journey, have come home to family and faith, and are determined to bring up responsible, moral children. Government is not the source of these values, but government should never undermine them.

And this is the justification for banning gay unions in the constitution itself. So I - as a gay person - am somehow a threat to "family and faith"? How dare he? What about my family and my faith? Bringing gay people into the embrace of their own families through marriage is somehow an affront to bringing up responsible, moral children? What about gay children? And what about gay couples bringing up moral, responsible children? Are they not members of families as well? Then this:

Because one of the deepest values of our country is compassion, we must never turn away from any citizen who feels isolated from the opportunities of America.

Unless you're gay. In which case, we want to amend the very Constitution to keep you isolated from the very responsibilities and opportunities we insist on for everyone else.