What About The Sanctity of Equality?

George W. Bush and his anti-equality allies are reportedly pushing ahead with their plans for a constitutional amendment that would deny equal rights to gay men and lesbians:

President Bush, reacting to the Massachusetts high court ruling Wednesday supporting full marriage rights for same-sex couples, says a constitutional amendment may be necessary to ban gay marriages if judges persist in approving them. In a written statement late Wednesday, Bush termed "deeply troubling" the decision that same-sex couples in Massachusetts have a right to marry--not just form civil unions--and reiterated a position staked out in his State of the Union speech last month. "Marriage is a sacred institution between a man and a woman," he said in the statement. "If activist judges insist on redefining marriage by court order, the only alternative will be the constitutional process. We must do what is legally necessary to defend the sanctity of marriage." [story]

Gay columnist George Bouley II weighs in on the issue:

Thanks to George W. Bush, Congress will consider the first constitutional clause since slavery that is designed to limit the rights of certain Americans. Thanks, Mr. President.

He continues that:

The losers (in this national debate) are the 15% or more of the country who are gay and lesbian and will have to hear daily about how they are welcomed but just don’t fully belong, how they’re God’s children but immoral and how we should all treat them with compassion but not with equality. [story]