RE: Mr. Bush's "Healthy Marriage Initiatives"
Feel like vomiting first thing in the morning? Yeah, me neither. Unfortunately, I read this crap and lost all control of my gag reflex. $1.5 BILLION to encourage hetero marriage, particularly in low-income areas. Yeah. THIS is going to save us all. Seriously, fuck education and healthcare! Let's spend 1.5 BILLION DOLLARS encouraging people to GET MARRIED. I mean, encouraging straight people to get married, that is. Jesus christ.

"...It also plays to Mr. Bush's desire to be viewed as a "compassionate conservative," an image he sought to cultivate in his 2000 campaign. This year, administration officials said, Mr. Bush will probably visit programs trying to raise marriage rates in poor neighborhoods.

"The president loves to do that sort of thing in the inner city with black churches, and he's very good at it," a White House aide said." [WHAT??]

and then...

"In an interview with ABC News last month, Mr. Bush was asked if he would support a constitutional amendment against gay marriage and gay civil unions.

"If necessary," he said, "I will support a constitutional amendment which would honor marriage between a man and a woman, codify that, and will — the position of this administration is that whatever legal arrangements people want to make, they're allowed to make, so long as it's embraced by the state, or does start at the state level.""

Bush Plans $1.5 Billion Drive for Promotion of Marriage [via NYT]

- posted by liz @ 1/14/2004 09:49:00 AM