We the people: which people?

Ugh. I’m getting all worked up again, thinking about Bush and the FMA. Here’s just one thing (among many) about yesterday’s speech that gets me. He says, “On a matter of such importance, the voice of the people must be heard.”

Which people? News flash, Bush: homosexuals–if you can ever bring yourself to say the word–are people too. Listen to us! While you purport to speak for “the people,” you speak against me, the gay population, and all citizens who value equality. Rather than do the right thing and help guide the nation toward some kind of understanding on gay issues (I’ll keep dreaming), you further stigmatize a minority population. Uniter, divider, yeah, whatever.

Lastly I repeat from an earlier entry: he can couch this in terms of “protection” of marriage, but it is basically denial of marriage. Try changing that one word in his speech: “If we are to prevent the meaning of marriage from being changed forever, our nation must enact a constitutional amendment to” deny gays and lesbians the right of marriage “in America.” Not only does that discriminatory sentiment have no place in the Constitution, it has no place in America. Again, I’ll keep dreaming. And start fighting.

By the way, yesterday I put my money where my mouth is and became a member of the HRC. I’d been meaning to do so for a while, and if anything were to spur me to action, then boy, this is it.