"Dr. King showed us that a life of conscious and purpose can lift up many souls, and on this ground a monument will rise that preserves his legacy for the ages. Honoring Dr. King's legacy requires more than building a monument. It requires the ongoing commitment of every American. So we will continue to work for the day when the dignity and humanity of every person is respected and the American promise is denied to no one."
Well-spoken words today, in front of an audience that, at some point in your life, you most likely had little sympathy for. Mr. Bush, Commander-in-Chief, President of the United States of America. You, sir, are the worst kind of hypocrite.
I am not your average citizen. I don't claim to have the vision or voice of Dr. King, though I certainly could do worse than aspiring to.
While speaking out of the side of your mouth today at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial dedication, Mr. President, I noticed that you seem to hold the civil rights leader in high esteem. Allow me, however, to flash back to February of 2004 for a moment.
"After more than two centuries of American jurisprudence and millennia of human experience, a few judges and local authorities are presuming to change the most fundamental institution of civilization."
These were your exact words in your push to ban same-sex marriage two years ago.
Perhaps, for a moment, we could look back, to this day in history, 1956, when the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of buses in Montgomery, Alabama, was unconstitutional. I wonder how many people claimed this was a fluke... How many claimed that, to paraphrase, "a few judges and local authorities are presuming to change the most fundamental institution of civilization."
I wonder, sir, if you're aware of a phrase... It is as applicable today as it was 60 years ago...
Social Discrimination.
Wikipedia defines it as "to make a distinction between people on the basis of class or category without regard to individual merit. Examples of social discrimination include racial, religious, sexual, sexual orientation, disability, ethnic, height-related, and age-related discrimination."
For better or worse, the people of this nation elected you... Twice. In each election, there were factors that make that a debatable fact.
But you, sir, are as bad as any that would have segregated blacks from whites in the decades between Plessy vs. Ferguson's upholding to its' overturning.
Justice Henry Brown wrote the opinion for the majority to uphold the concept of segregation as follows:
"A statute which implies merely a legal distinction between the white and colored races -- a distinction which is founded in the color of the two races, and which must always exist so long as white men are distinguished from the other race by color -- has no tendency to destroy the legal equality of the two races...The object of the Fourteenth Amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either."
Translation? To read this is to understand the fundamental rationale for the apartheid frame of mind. If, however, the enterprising reader were to substitute color with orientation, you would find it's the same argument the political right, and religious majority, are using as their basis for discrimination.
Including you.
You have ruined, by virtue of your intolerant ideas of what's "morally right," the dedication of a memorial to a great man - a man who has shown so many of us that one person can make a difference.
Perhaps virtue of some sort does make its home inside you. But, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt has been quoted as saying, "The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea."
Good day, Mr. Bush, give my respects to the people.
Well-spoken words today, in front of an audience that, at some point in your life, you most likely had little sympathy for. Mr. Bush, Commander-in-Chief, President of the United States of America. You, sir, are the worst kind of hypocrite.
I am not your average citizen. I don't claim to have the vision or voice of Dr. King, though I certainly could do worse than aspiring to.
While speaking out of the side of your mouth today at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial dedication, Mr. President, I noticed that you seem to hold the civil rights leader in high esteem. Allow me, however, to flash back to February of 2004 for a moment.
"After more than two centuries of American jurisprudence and millennia of human experience, a few judges and local authorities are presuming to change the most fundamental institution of civilization."
These were your exact words in your push to ban same-sex marriage two years ago.
Perhaps, for a moment, we could look back, to this day in history, 1956, when the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of buses in Montgomery, Alabama, was unconstitutional. I wonder how many people claimed this was a fluke... How many claimed that, to paraphrase, "a few judges and local authorities are presuming to change the most fundamental institution of civilization."
I wonder, sir, if you're aware of a phrase... It is as applicable today as it was 60 years ago...
Social Discrimination.
Wikipedia defines it as "to make a distinction between people on the basis of class or category without regard to individual merit. Examples of social discrimination include racial, religious, sexual, sexual orientation, disability, ethnic, height-related, and age-related discrimination."
For better or worse, the people of this nation elected you... Twice. In each election, there were factors that make that a debatable fact.
But you, sir, are as bad as any that would have segregated blacks from whites in the decades between Plessy vs. Ferguson's upholding to its' overturning.
Justice Henry Brown wrote the opinion for the majority to uphold the concept of segregation as follows:
"A statute which implies merely a legal distinction between the white and colored races -- a distinction which is founded in the color of the two races, and which must always exist so long as white men are distinguished from the other race by color -- has no tendency to destroy the legal equality of the two races...The object of the Fourteenth Amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either."
Translation? To read this is to understand the fundamental rationale for the apartheid frame of mind. If, however, the enterprising reader were to substitute color with orientation, you would find it's the same argument the political right, and religious majority, are using as their basis for discrimination.
Including you.
You have ruined, by virtue of your intolerant ideas of what's "morally right," the dedication of a memorial to a great man - a man who has shown so many of us that one person can make a difference.
Perhaps virtue of some sort does make its home inside you. But, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt has been quoted as saying, "The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea."
Good day, Mr. Bush, give my respects to the people.
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