Your government enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance.
With the support of Republican Congressional leadership, 50 prominent religious theocrats have signed a petition demanding a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Such an amendment would legalize second-class citizenship and discrimination of gays, and mark one more step towards enforcing a hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism. Senate aids for Bill Frist, Rick Santorum, and Sam Brownback were involved in the petition, and intend to bring the amendment to a vote in Congress in June. Extreme right-wing fundamentalists like James C. Dobson of Focus on the Family and the evangelist D. James Kennedy were also involved in the petition.
The Bush regime makes no qualms about mobilizing its fundamentalist base to push ahead in demanding its intolerant and hateful morality be enshrined as the law of the land. Already they have got Roberts and Alito on the Supreme Court, passed a ban on abortion in South Dakota, and began teaching the bible in public schools. If these moves toward theocracy are not defeated through the struggle of millions of people who don’t want to live in a society where gays are stuffed back into the closet (or worse), women back into the home, traditional racism reinforced, and blind religious obedience of government policy, this will have grave consequences for the future.
The World Can’t Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime!
(Source: “A Religious Push Against Gay Unions”, NY Times, 4/24/06)