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02/24/2004 Archived Entry: "Congress Is Urged to Begin Process to Amend Constitution"

Posted by steve @ 02:10 PM EST [Link]

ALWAYS WITH THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS: George W. Bush today came out in favor of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.

In an announcement fraught with social, legal and political implications, Mr. Bush urged Congress to act on the amendment quickly and send it on to the state legislatures. Quick action is essential, he said, to bring clarity to the law and protect husband-and-wife marriages from a few "activist judges."

"The voice of the people must be heard," Mr. Bush said in a brief White House appearance.

Two-thirds of each house of Congress would have to approve the proposed amendment. It would then have to be approved by at least three-fourths of the state legislatures, or 38, to become part of the Constitution.

"An amendment to the Constitution is never to be undertaken lightly," Mr. Bush said. "The amendment process has addressed many serious matters of national concern, and the preservation of marriage rises to this level of national importance."

Constitutional amendments are never to be undertaken lightly but conservatives are always calling for them. Regardless of where you stand on the issue of same sex marriages, conservatives have to stop wanting to change the constitution every time some social issue rears its head. It's hard to take a conservative denying the constitution's status as a "living document" when they keep calling for the thing to be changed.

Read on.