Love the President, Hate his Sins?

Learn to wish that everything should come to pass exactly as it does.- EpictetusI just finished reading some of Andrew Sullivan’s readers’ emails on their feelings of betrayal by George W. Bush on his coming out as a Radical Right-Winger hell bent on writing discrimination into the U.S. Constitution by any means necessary to deny the legally implied yet heretofore denied equality for same-sex couples that already exists in the document.Additionally the Log Cabin Republican’s are declaring Bush’s support for the FMA “a declaration of war on gay and lesbian families and an attack on our sacred Constitution.”It wasn’t that many years ago, that I proudly called myself a Republican … while friends and family kept telling me that those white men would rather see me dead than allow me an equal place at the table of humanity, solely because of the gender of the person that I loved. I would shrug it off as just some more political mud slinging. It wasn’t until I actually started questioning why I was a Republican, and examining the “truths” about Democrats that I had believed or been sold by other family, friends, right-wing radio, right-wing preachers, etc. that I was able to discard the specious reasoning that I had accepted without much questioning and started to see the world in a whole new light.For those that have previously supported Mr. Bush, and his Old Party, I wish you luck on your emotional and intellectual journey of enlightenment.

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