from reasononline......

ok, so this from dave wiegel's reasononline.....regarding the pitiable busg attempt to distract america from real issues by waving his i'm against gay marriage flag toward the conservative right

If Republicans convince themselves that social conservative "free votes" are going to save their majority, they should remember the last time they went to this particular gift shop. Last year a red-hot media frenzy over the "culture of life" gave the GOP majority a chance to box in the Democrats on another moral issue. The party interrupted its legislative calendar to force a lopsided "yes" vote on what one senator's aide called "a great political issue" that would excite "the pro-life base." And on March 20 last year, the House and Senate voted to transfer jurisdiction of Terri Schiavo's case from Florida to the federal courts. Approval of the GOP and the president took a quick nosedive. They haven't yet recovered their pre-Schiavo political strength.

at sunday school, the widow of an emeritus pastor was passing out james dobson's phone number, in case we/i wanted to call and sign a petition supporting the marriage amendment........this woman is an otherwise dear person, yet i was tempted to ask her if she really thought that jesus himself would do something so cruel to alternative lifestyle children of god who wanted to raise families...just like everybody else.........i think not........as i recall jesus had many things to say about divorce......not about marriage........and i would challenge those on the hill who would vote on such an issue to think twice about this vote as a visible show of their piety if they have a divorce on their permenent record........