On June 7, the U.S. Senate voted for a second time on an amendment to define marriage in the U.S. Constitution as being exclusively between one man and one woman.Isn't it amazing that a radio shrink and snakeoil salesman can claim with a straight face that he is the only one in the nation who really knows what the majority of Americans believe?
Again this year, the amendment failed to pass by a wide margin, falling 18 votes shy of a required two-thirds majority. The final tally was 49 in favor, 48 opposed.
Rarely has there been a greater disconnect between members of the Senate and the American people who put them in power. With the help of the media, which laid down "cover" by claiming voters didn't care about marriage, 40 Democrats, one Independent and seven Republicans turned their backs on this most basic social institution.
To prove his point, Dr. Dobson goes on to cite a number of statistics that he apparently pulled out of thin air or just made up to show that somehow the most important issue in the whole world to the American public is whether or not two people of the same sex can make a commitment to one another and have the same rights as everybody else. He blames "activist" judges appointed by Democratic presidents for striking down gay marriage bans, conveniently forgetting that most of the judges who have ruled on the cases, including those on the Masschusetts courts, were appointed by Republicans. (Meanwhile, Dobson's minions have no problem with filing lawsuits in favor of the Ten Commandments, hoping for their own kind of activism). He then goes on to say the fight isn't over: "It took William Wilberforce more than 30 years to bring about an end to Britain's slave trade in the 1800s. Unfortunately, we do not have the luxury of a protracted victory." So, to him, granting full civil rights to all people of this country, regardless of sexual orientation, is the same as slavery. This man is truly demented.
Unlike Shakespeare's Sister, I'm glad CNN granted this waste of skin a forum to shout his homophobic bigotry into the headlines. The more he rages, the more people will see that he is little more than Fred Phelps with money and his brand of Christianity is a perversion of the faith he so vehemently vows to protect.
