A Wonderful Letter

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Bush calls for same-sex marriage-ban amendment.

Here’s the text of the speech.

I don’t have enough expletives to express how angry I am right now. I don’t have enough words to describe our idiotic, stupid, narrow-minded, intellectually bankrupt president and those who agree with him.

So I won’t. Instead I’ll link to something.

I’m almost finished reading David Moats’s new book, Civil Wars: A Battle for Gay Marriage, the story of how civil unions became law in Vermont. Towards the end of the book, Moats quotes, almost in full, a letter that appeared in a Vermont newspaper shortly after Gov. Dean signed the civil unions bill into law.

Here is the letter. Please read it. It’s wonderful.

8 thoughts on “A Wonderful Letter”

  2. I don’t have much more to add than “me too”.

    Letters like that make give me hope that the real world is a far more tolerant and loving place that we see portrayed by the media.

  3. I had never seen that letter before you posted the link to it today. I told [my] Jeff earlier today that I intend to send a copy of it to every one of my friends and family. I feel sick to my stomach today, as though I’d been slapped in the face and spit on. I knew this was coming, yet I’m still horribly, horribly saddened, angered and embittered by it.

  4. This whole thing is sounding very Third Reich-ish. Isn’t this how it started…making one group a “scapegoat” during difficult times? Damn Bush…and every other fundamentalist out there.

  5. I called my two Senators from Arizona this morning and asked when they were planning on opening the concentration camps. I then called my 72-year-old mother and she made me feel better by telling me that she didn’t see any reason why gays and lesbians couldn’t be married. There is hope out there, after all.

  7. What amazes me is the fact that people in the United States would agree to ammend the Constitution to exclude American citizens from exercsing their right to marry.

    Thanks for the link…

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