Our gay-bashing president

The president and his conservative base are hoping to write discrimination into the constitution. The New York Times reports today that the president will support a constitutional amendment that “would prohibit states from recognizing same-sex marriages.” I’ve written about this before, so I won’t belabor it.

Here are the links to my columns on the issue:

• The problem is bias, not gay marriage
• Marriage ban at odds with Bill of Rights
• Time to redefine the family

And I’ll quote with something from the Times:

“This is fundamentally both a civil rights and religious freedom issue and the president’s position of supporting amending the constitution is just dead wrong,” said Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. “This is simply to give ammunition to the so-called religious right just to show that the president is still with them.”

The South Brunswick Post, The Cranbury Press

Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet