http://www.now.org/issues/marriage/012505amendment.html"Last year Congress voted down the similar Federal Marriage Amendment, and in a Jan. 16, 2005 interview with The Washington Post, Bush seemed to indicate that he would not push for a new amendment this session.
Bush's words caused panic among many conservatives and lead to a stern letter from a coalition known as the "Arlington Group." The Arlington Group is an alliance of prominent religious right-wingers, including James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Jerry Falwell of the Moral Majority Coalition, Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation and Don Wildmon of the American Family Association."
"The letter continued: "Is
prepared to spend significant political capital on privatization but reluctant to devote the same energy to preserving traditional marriage? If so it would create outrage with countless voters who stood with him just a few weeks ago, including an unprecedented number of African-Americans, Latinos and Catholics who broke with tradition and supported the president solely because of this issue."
Just in case their threat was not clear, Falwell and company spelled it out: "When the administration adopts a defeatist attitude on an issue that is at the top of our agenda, it becomes impossible for us to unite our movement on an issue such as Social Security privatization where there are already deep misgivings."
The religious right needs to take their war on the majority of America and go to the Hell that they preach about.
And from where I was trying to be more open minded about social security reform, here this is.
http://www.now.org/press/02-05/02-03.html
You all can just read the link on that.
I badly want to believe that all of American isn't being thrown to hell in a bushy basket, just to keep getting proven wrong.
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