The Daily Dish Disses Dubya. A couple of hours ago, I watched Aaron Brown interview Andrew Sullivan on CNN, during which he made it clear he could no longer endorse nor vote for Bush based in large part upon the president's announcement that he will seek a Constitutional Amendment that would essentially ban gay "marriage" in the United States of America. I seldom agree with Mr. Sullivan--particularly in the area of foreign policy--but it will be no surprise to you that on this matter I do, and I do so mostly on a Constitutional basis: Such laws or statutes should be handled at the state level, individually. It is clearly a States Rights issue. While Mr. Sullivan of course has deeper personal views on the subject, he is clearly basing his opinion in the larger public policy debate on the "Federalist" position concerning the division of rights between the states and the national government as set forth in the United States Constitution.
My position on this is a bit thorny for me politically and philosophically since I am a strange hybrid whose views are a combination of those most famously framed in the arguments between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton--with a significant dash of Jacksonian sentiments thrown in. However, we can--and I do--frame this issue as also being about equal freedoms for one and all--individual human rights trumping those of the society as a whole. I was just about to blog the "NewsNight" interview and Sullivan's written eloquence and passion from The Daily Dish when I saw that Richard, the proprietor and author of The Peking Duck had already done so--Richard has always been on top of breaking events, but with his arm now out of a splint, he is doubly tough to beat to the click.
Consequently, I will defer and point you to The Peking Duck:
Andrew Sullivan: "War is declared"
In an emotional post that has already generated thousands of emails, Andrew Sullivan takes off the kid gloves and says President Bush's support of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage will make gays see the Republican party 'as their enemy for generations."
