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Thu 11 Mar, 2004 01:54 pm
Here is Bush's compassionate conservative agenda.
1) Halting late-term abortions by outlawing certain late-term abortions, and vigorously defending this law against any attempt to overturn it in the courts.
( Bush this week backed off effort to subpoena abortion records from six Planned Parenthood affiliates as part of the government's defense of the new law. )
2) Banning gay marriage with a constitutional amendment that makes a civil union license a worthless piece of paper and disallows 1049 civil laws to be legally recognized for any union except that between one man and one woman with a properly exeucted, State-issued civil license allowing the law to recognize the marriage.
3) Doing God's work with conviction and kindness, even killing innocent people and leaving them destitute if necessary.
4) Special emphasis on curtailing abortion forever.
5) Building a culture of life on the ashes and rubble of weak nations that can't resist our might.
6) New legal definitions of PERSON, HUMAN BEING, CHILD and INDIVIDUAL to include any fetus that survives an abortion procedure.
7) Oppostion to the use of federal funds for the destruction of human embryos for stem-cell research. It's OK to leave blood on the sands of Iraq to make the world a better place, but scientific research is evil and not to be trusted.
8) Legislation for a comprehensive and effective ban on human cloning.
9) Allow religious charities a greater hand in delivering social services, like halfway houses instead of prisons, and of course, the right to discriminate when hiring.
10) Continue to nominate or appoint, as necessary to the courts like-minded, partisan activist judges who will interpret the law as they legislate from the bench.
Well there it is people. The new Ten Commandments for the 21st Century. If you are not with God, you are against God.
Sen. Jo Ann Sprague (R-Walpole) urged her colleagues to vote no on any amendment that would ban same-sex marriage, saying that "All of us want to leave a legacy that we acted in accordance with our belief in tolerance, our belief in individual merit, our belief in the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We owe it to those we love to uphold, and keep inviolate, our Constitution -- a Constitution that guarantees all of us, not just some of us, equality before the law."