Where are Democrats on the Federal Marriage Amendment?
You’ve got to hand it to the Bush Administration: they take care of their own. Wealthy folks have received tax breaks; Star Wars defense contractors are reaping billions; pollution controls on business are being eased; national forests have been opened to logging. Perhaps nothing is more glaring, however, than what has been done to cater to the demands of the religious right. For them, the constitutionally-mandated separation between church and state has been breached by the President’s “Faith Based Initiative.” Federal law now bans “late term abortion” at home and the administration has relentlessly attacked family planning programs abroad. With barely a shred of empirical evidence to show they work, “abstinence only” programs – that actually ban access to real sex education or HIV prevention information – are being lavishly funded. Even with all of these giveaways, the religious right demanded more and they got it: the President’s active support of an amendment to the U.S. Constituti
