I drafted this a month ago and never posted it. So, the issues are not “fresh” as then, when Congress had just voted, preventing, again, for this stupid initiative and others of its ilk to be considered further. But they’ll surface more and more– it’s an election year, after all.

Meanwhile, I’ll admire my “Jesus is a Liberal” bumper magnet.

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“The overwhelming majority of the American people support traditional marriage,” said Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (news, bio, voting record), R-Colo., sponsor of the amendment (from Yahoo! News).
Interesting, when substantially less than 100% of American adults are married, and of those who do get married, fully half don’t uphold the “till death do us part” vow. That qualifies as an “overwhelming majority”?Why must states I reside in elect individuals with either loathsome or simply downright stupid views to Congress? I was ashamed enough to be a native Georgian when Newt Gingrich was spewing his rhetoric back in the ’90′s, and now I must live in Colorado, represented by such luminaries as Musgrave and my district’s own execrable Tom Tancredo.I am so sick of this nonissue, and continue to be unamused at the party who trumpets belief in smaller, less-interfering government expressing utter hypocrisy by actively seeking to legislate the relationships of consenting adults. It’s not government’s job, and moreover, there are so many real issues pressing for attention. I could have more respect for conservative Republicans if they could grow up and address such issues, that might actually improve citizens’ lives, rather than being dogmatically hung up only on issues that somehow relate back to sex (abortion, gay marriage, stem cells… see the trend?)