And now the bad news...

King George has decided he needs to do SOMETHING to make his base happy, so rather than properly arm and supply the troops in Iraq, rather than address the monstrous deficit, rather than do something, ANYTHING constructive, he does this

As if this is the most important issue facing the American people today.

"President Bush will promote a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage on Monday, the eve of a scheduled Senate vote on the cause that is dear to his conservative backers.

The amendment would prohibit states from recognizing same-sex marriages. To become law, the proposal would need two-thirds support in the Senate and House, and then be ratified by at least 38 state legislatures."

The amendment doesn't stand a chance of passing, but I'm getting upon my soapbox about it for two reasons:

First, it goes back to what I've been saying for what feels like forever these days, the Holy Terrors that put Uncurious George into office want nothing less than the total eradication of anything fun about sex. That means anything which doesn't expressly produce more cannon fodder for overseas wars (within the bonds of matrimony, of course) is bad. So anything involving sex for love or just for fun is just bad, bad, bad.

Second, it's not as if there's been this marriage crisis which requires an amendment to the Constitution anytime soon. Bush is just pandering to his base.

The worst thing about this is the fact that it's giving the Holy Terrors an excuse to rev up their hate machine.

It's going to get ugly.