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LEAVE THE CONSTITUTION ALONE Thu Aug 7, 7:21 PM ET
By Cynthia Tucker
This was as unnecessary as it was utterly predictable: Shoring up his appeal among ultraconservative constituents, President Bush ( - ) recently dismissed gay marriage, saying his administration is moving to "codify" a legal definition of marriage as restricted to a man and a woman.
That prejudice has already been enshrined in law, in former Georgia congressman Bob Barr's odious Defense of Marriage Act. So what is the president talking about? A constitutional amendment?
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., has endorsed an amendment banning same-sex unions, and a Colorado legislator has reintroduced a marriage amendment bill in the House.
Let's hope this is just political blather for the campaign trail. The last thing the nation needs is for its religious conservatives to hijack the U.S. Constitution.
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Meanwhile, the nation need not be torn asunder by an inflammatory debate over the U.S. Constitution. Let the pope and the preachers, the bishops, the rabbis and the imams slug it out. Leave the Constitution alone.
So does Ms. Tucker think we should restore the original wording of the Constitution by removing the "right to privacy" interpretation of the 14th amendment on which the SCOTUS based its decision in _Roe v. Wade_? Or, given that she is black, how about repealing the entire 14th amendment?
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-- Ronn! :)
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