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Taken from fyredancer

President Bush has declared next week to be 'Marriage Protection' Week. Read all about it here. Yeah. I'm just a little bit bitter.

ladysisyphus has a reactionary icon meme starting here, and burr86 gives a link to add 'anti-marriage protection week' to your LJ interests.

And while I'm sure this was done unintentionally, it's just a wonderful coincidence that October 12- the first day of this MP week- is the five year anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death.

So. Spread the word. I'm pissed off to the point where I don't even have anything to say about this.

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Some more links for the fun and entertainment of all.

(Note the sarcasm. Note the voice just dripping with sarcasm.)

Marriage Protection Week.com Here we go. This is what Bush is promoting, this is what he gave his support to. Go, read, be marveled by the absolute homophobic, fundamentalist Christian tone of this site. I don't care what pretty terms someone convinced him to word his own speech in, this is what it's really about. (Link taken from thebratqueen)

I especially like the articles they have featured, such as 'What Homosexual "Marriage" Will Mean to America's Children' and 'A Biblical Response to Unholy Gay 'Matrimony''(the second one, though, has fun quotes such as "Do you remember the words, "this little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine"? In The Cambridge Friends School in Cambridge, Mass., the gay light is shining brightly." The gay light? WTF?)

From maygra, how to get in touch the group sponosring both the site and the idea:

American Family Association
107 Parkgate Dr.
Tupelo, MS 38803
E-mail: afa@afa.net



The very purpose of the site is that "the sacred institution of marriage is under attack". Bush starts out his 'proclamation' with "Marriage is a sacred institution, and its protection is essential to the continued strength of our society". Is anyone else seeing the problem here? Regardless of how I may feel about this, regardless even of whether it's right or wrong to allow same-sex couples to marry, the President of the United States should not be involved in anything that involves 'sacred institutions'. Church. State. Not the same. Bush does not have the right to use his authority in any matters related to religion. I don't care if he was promoting the sacredness of the institution of dog-walking, he should have no more say than any other citizen. This is an abuse of power. (ETA: Apparantly I'm not the only one with these thoughts. Check out sanj's post.)

vanityfair had a post here about things you can do to protest this. So does folk, here.

If you would be interested in contacting the White House themselves, just call (202) 456-1414. Congress is at (202) 224-3121. Go on, call them and yell. You know you want to.

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icediamond asked:

This is going to sound odd, but I really don't get why everyone is so upset about it. I mean, I look at it and I just see Bush doing a political move that'll get his constitutency happy with him. *shrugs* I'm not thrilled with it, but I can see why he did it. But could someone explain why they're so upset about it?

I'm sure there are other people on my friends list wondering the same thing, but who didn't want to seem rude or un-PC, so I'm posting the whole thing. (And also, it got too long for a comment, but I thought I'd make it seem like I was really just thinking of others.)

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