President Bush is expected to endorse a constitutional amendment, the primary purpose of which is to exclude gays and lesbians from the right to marry. The president has said recently, “Marriage is a sacred institution between a man and a woman.”
But it is not the purpose of government, nor of the Constitution, to make things “sacred.” Those who believe that marriage is sacred usually choose to be married in a religious ceremony.
Religions have always made their own decisions about whom to marry.
It is astonishing that in a time of unfinished wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, threats of terrorism, severe deficits, losses of millions of jobs and other serious matters that our president and legislators propose to use the time, energy and money necessary to amend this nation’s Constitution to discriminate against a class of people.
