A week before the election, President Bush has made this confused statement about an issue on which, at one time, he was on the right side:
Bush breaks with GOP on same-sex unions - (United Press International)Washington, DC, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- President Bush broke with the Republican Party platform in supporting states' rights to permit same-sex civil unions.
"I don't think we should deny people rights to a civil union, a legal arrangement, if that's what a state chooses to do so. ...
"I view the definition of marriage different from legal arrangements that enable people to have rights. And I strongly believe that marriage ought to be defined as between a union between a man and a woman.
"Now, having said that, states ought to be able to have the right to pass laws that enable people to be able to have rights like others," Bush told ABC's Charlie Gibson in an interview broadcast Tuesday on "Good Morning America."
"So the Republican platform on that point, as far as you're concerned, is wrong?" Gibson asked the president, to which Bush replied: "Right."
First, Bush hasn't a clue where rights come from... according to this statement of his, they come from lawmakers. Secondly, I'm not sure about the purpose of his defining marriage differently than civil unions (never have been, in fact). I'm not sure what moral ground he thinks he's standing on in making this statement, but it certainly seems like he's flipped over to a new position to pander to where he thinks the votes are coming from. But why should I be surprised?
Posted by toddpedlar at October 27, 2004 06:24 AM | TrackBack