Exhibit One: Rove said Bush "absolutely'' will pursue a constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage. Bush supports letting states make laws that would give same-sex partners visitation rights in hospitals and inheritance rights, he said.
"Marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society,'' Rove said. "If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal. And the ideal is that marriage ought to be and should be a union of a man and a woman. And we cannot allow activist judges to overturn that.''
Exhibit Two: Having restored decency to the White House, President Bush now has a mandate to affect policy that will promote a more decent society, through both politics and law. His supporters want that, and have given him a mandate in their popular and electoral votes to see to it. Now is the time to begin our long, national cultural renewal ("The Great Relearning," as novelist Tom Wolfe calls it) — no less in legislation than in federal court appointments. It is, after all, the main reason George W. Bush was reelected.
Exhibit Three: Joseph Welch to Joseph McCarthy: "Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty, or your recklessness. ... You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
Posted by gminter at November 7, 2004 05:10 PM