If Bush contiues to push this amendment it's most likely, because of the amount of time it'll take, he won't be in office. How nice start a fire & let the next president put it out. He's pretty much keeping his MO the same. Religion & Government by the law of the land need to remain seperate. Regligious org can do as they please we all have the choice of which to join or not join depending on their beliefs. There is no choice of Government for an American citizen to join. Since when was the gov allowed into the bedrooms of it's people in order to decied which people or group should become 2nd class citizens & deny them of the same rights that other enjoy. We have been guilty of this & each time history views these acts it views it with shame. The peoples of the first nation, slavery, women's rights to vote, WW2's treatment of Japanese Americans & lately the treatment of Mid Eastern peoples. Now we toss in the rights of people of different sexual orientation from what's main stream. As to those here that find there sexual & emotional preferences different from there own check out yourselves first. Do you think you were born with a choice of what gender you choose love. Those that love their own gender have no more say in the matter than you or I or my son who did not chose to be born bi-polar. So where do we go from here? Create new Bedlams & Maudlins & return to the 18th century when it was so easy to deal with all these different people. If they're different they don't belong in "OUR" society & we can once again lock them all up. Pretty soon it'll come to be that those of us who don't have the same beliefs as the ruling majority will be spied upon, have their patriotism called into question & be treated as 2nd class citizens. Let's call for the creation of one Master Race that seemded to work the last time around, hindsight sucks if it doesn't help to develop any foresight the next time around.

It's almost like Bush is playing the race card.

Barry