> Bush Plans $1.5 Billion Drive for Promotion of Marriage
For months, administration officials have worked with conservative groups on the proposal, which would provide at least $1.5 billion for training to help couples develop interpersonal skills that sustain "healthy marriages."
The officials said they believed that the measure was especially timely because they were facing pressure from conservatives eager to see the federal government defend traditional marriage, after a decision by the highest court in Massachusetts. The court ruled in November that gay couples had a right to marry under the state's Constitution.
As is my response to most of Bush's proposals, I say: He can't be serious. And yet, he always seems to be.
I can understand the moon station and going to Mars. It's the next step, the final frontier, if you will. Not that I think this is the appropriate time given our financial condition (did anyone read the IMF report from the other day??). But this is just an inexplicable use of funds. If it somehow manages to get through, I can only hope that gay couples in MA use all the money prior to Bush attempting to put through a defense of marriage (from gay people) amendment. And why low income people? Why should they get married more than anyone else? I am almost positive this would have to do with kicking people off welfare, but I'll have to put some more research time into it. Please.. you right wingers explain it to me, because your logic is lost on me, as usual.
** Update ** Apparently, only heterosexual couples can take advantage. Doesn't that reek of discrimination?-----
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