Get Your Blog Up

“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Sunday, April 03, 2005

Pitfalls of blogging

One of the reasons I am still hesitant when I blog is because I'm afraid I'll write something like this:
The proponents of gay marriage, who don't give a darn about the law or the constitutionally expressed will of the people, are still trying to force gay marriage through via judicial fiat, and that is why President Bush in his State of the Union Address advocated a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

I'm a "proponent" of gay marriage, and I feel it is because I do "give a darn" about the law, specifically this one:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Darn activist judges, writing the 14th amendment of our Constitution like that.

I'm also not sure I understand the meaning of "the constitutionally expressed will of the people." Does it mean that people expressed their will under the guidelines of the Constitution? Or that they have a Constiutional right to express their will? Hey, that's great and all. Good for them. But it is possible for people to support things that are unconstitutional, isn't it? Opposition to civil rights is the first thing that springs to mind.