Bill Frist "Coming Out of the Closet?"

As reported on cable news today Bill Frist has gone to the closet and pulled out the wedge issue the republican party had only just briefly stored away for future use. The future is apparently now...or rather the November 2006 elections. Bill Frist today announced that he will be pursuing the anti gay marriage amendment that his party has long used as a wedge issue to drive their base to the polls. Their base carries false hopes to the polls and ends up supporting a party with an agenda hell bent on making the rich richer, the poor poorer and their own interests both financially and ideologically more robust. Bill Frist is the same man who diagnosed Terri Schaivo from the senate floor. He was dead wrong. His diagnosis inarguably was unethical. The two things absolutely necessary for any doctor to make a diagnosis as I have been taught is 1: complete review of medical history 2: personal (in person) observation of the patient. Neither of these did Bill Frist do. A few weeks ago he said that he learned that the American people do not want the federal government involved in end of life decisions of families. What the hay? Eighty percent of the American people surveyed at the time said that the federal government should not intervene in the Terri Schaivo case. Should this have not been a huge sign to Bill Frist? Of course he knew what the polls were saying in this regard. He along with the republican party don't care what the overwhelming majority of the American citizens want or need. They forget that they work for us. He is now back to believing that we want a "anti gay marriage" amendment.
Furthermore, if Bill Frist had a vagina like Martha Stewart he would have already been sent up the creek for the same insider trading charges that she was. This is disgusting. Bill Frist is a disgrace to all Americans.
Amendments to the Constitution are generally to grant civil liberties not take them away. Prohibition was the last amendment designed to take things away from the American people. That one didn't last long did it?
OH....back to the Wedge issue of "Gay Marriage" don't we have much more serious and real issues that need to be addressed. Or is this about the addresses of the known voters in the red states? Our economy is going poorly unless you are rich rich. Heating prices, gasoline prices are incredibly high and wages have been flat for sometime now. The mess concerning our illegal war in Iraq is not getting any better while our troops are getting killed and the financial costs are many folds more than this administration estimated possibly 2trillion dollars. Frist wants us to focus on an "anti gay marriage amendment." Maybe this amendment will help the economy....yeah right......maybe it will help bring heating costs and gasoline prices down....yeah right.....maybe this amendment will bring our troops safely home....yeah right.
What is up with Medicare/Medicaid? Your mother, father, sister or brother, your aunt or your uncle, grandpa or grandmother have certainly fallen victim to the new Medicare scam right? I think they figured if they could confuse the process as much as possible then many seniors and the needy would stop participating in the process and therefore save Medicare money. This is shameful. Maybe if the republicans get their "anti gay marriage amendment" then the seniors who die without their medicine will forgive them. I mean who needs medicine as long as gay people can't get married?
As long as we have an "anti gay marriage" amendment needy students will not care that the republican controlled congress and president Bush cut 12.7 billion dollars from student aid right?
A National Health Care Plan would be a good issue for Bill Frist (senate majority leader) to take up. He opts for a "anti gay marriage" amendment instead.
The Constitution is under attack. Articles One (freedom of speech, press, the right to assemble etc.) and Four (due process, privacy etc.) are all but history and Bill Frist apparently feels America will be better if we replace either Article One or Article Four with an "anti gay marriage" amendment.
A couple of guys that I know have been in a loving committed relationship for more than a decade. They tell me that they have no interest in "getting married." They have themselves and their relationship protected contractually. They are much more concerned that the basic civil liberties granted in the Bill of Rights which all American citizens are entitled to are being stripped. They say they do not want any more "rights" than every other law abiding citizen has under the Bill of Rights. They would just like to keep the rights our forefathers granted you and me.
A little more of this silliness concerning "gay marriage." Former republican senator Bob Barr was one of the senators who introduced the "defense of marriage act" under the Clinton administration. Could someone tell me what he/they were trying to defend? Bob Barr is on his THIRD WIFE. Are these people really just scared that gay people may have a better marriage success rate than those of their heterosexual counterparts? Last I checked, the divorce rate is over 50%. Seems like the heterosexuals in America are doing a great job all by themselves of destroying the "sanctity of marriage."