Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Republican Senator from Tennessee, has just effectively thrown hundreds of thousands of votes away, votes that would have otherwise counted for George W. Bush in the upcoming 2004 Presidential election. He has also publicly shown some of the irrational convervatism for which Republicans have been known. Granted, not every Republican believes that they should be the ones to decide your moral values, and, thankfully, most Republicans have realized that this is not their place, especially inasmuch as the democrats have taken that spot for themselves. Unfortunately, a few of these politicians, whom the democrats refer to as "nazis," still exist, and Bill Frist is one of them. Given that the democrats are still subversively pushing racism, it is not surprising that a few Republicans are still pushing the idea that only their values are good enough for you!
Following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling last week effectively permitting consensual sodomy between gay citizens, Frist has decided that it is only OK for a man to stick his penis in an asshole if the asshole has a vagina, notwithstanding that asshole Hillary. (And to think that this guy is an M.D.; he must have been busy adulterously fornicating with some hole during anatomy class, for an anus is neither male nor female.) But this is not why rational people should be upset with him. We should, however, be on the lookout for anyone who wants to start monkeying around with the Constitution and Bill of Rights, especially when it is being done to allow discrimination against any citizen. Frist wants to add an amendment to the Bill of Rights that actually removes the right of gay citizens to their own privacy; he wants the right to privacy to only apply to married heterosexual couples. As justification, those who want to take your rights away by changing the Constitution claim that it is a "living document," which is just another bullshit cover for "let's change it to make it legal to screw this group or that." Frist hysterically claims that the Supreme Court decision threatens to make the American home a place where criminality is condoned. Think about it: That's just another "nazi" Republican way of saying that the government has the right to know everything that you do in the privacy of your home, regardless of whether you are straight, gay, single, married or fill in the blank; should that government be controlled by non-Republicans, a Constitutional amendment will ensure that those jack-booted "nazi" police can still come into your home for an examination - to ensure that no "criminality is condoned."
Frist had a particularly interesting comment, one which almost sounds like a typical democrat obfuscation: "I have this fear that this zone of privacy that we all want protected in our homes is gradually - or, I'm concerned about the potential for it gradually being encroached upon, where criminal activity within the home would in some way be condoned." Criminal activity such as what, Bill? He added, "I'm thinking of - whether it's prostitution or illegal commercial drug activity in the home - ...to have the courts come in, in this zone of privacy, and begin to define it gives me some concern." OK, let me make sure I understand this: It's not OK for the courts to "come into my home" and permit me to have privacy because Bill Frist is concerned that I might be having sex - anal or otherwise - with a prostitute or because I might be taking too much valium, a commercial drug activity, but it IS OK for Bill Frist and his gestapo to come in my home and decide my morals for me by taking away my right to privacy? Uh-huh. He went on, "I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament, and that sacrament should extend and can extend to that legal entity of a union between - what is traditionally, in our Western values, has been defined [sic] - as between a man and a woman. So, I would support the amendment" to permit marriage only between a human with a penis and another human with a vagina, and the hell with "equal rights." This sounds to POINT -- The Way like something bordering on government mandating church values, in violation of the Constitution.
Frist claims to respect the highest court in the land and their decision, but he thinks that citizens should not be allowed to decide privacy issues for themselves. "Generally, I think matters such as sodomy should be addressed by the state legislatures," he said, adding, "That's where those decisions - with local norms, the local mores - are being able to have their input in reflected. [sic] And that's where it should be decided, and not in the courts." Aside from implying that legislators should be able to override the Constitution at any local level, what he failed to explicitly say, but which he explicitly implied, is that the state legislatures should decide these issues, as long as their decisions match his values and expectations. Frist claims that he believes that "local norms, the local mores" are what are most important, but Frist is a LIAR! He does not put his money where his mouth is. (Actually, I don't want to know where his mouth has been!) For example, the citizens of California have legalized medicinal marijuana, but Frist's Republicans certainly aren't supporting that decision! How 'bout it, Bill? Suppose a state decided that you can only engage in any and all sexual behavior if you are gay? I'll bet anyone that Frist wouldn't support that "local norm."
Bill Frist is a bigot, but, instead of going after people of color, he's going after the 15%+ of the population that is gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered. Anything that is different, anything that you are incapable of understanding, anything that might show more LOVE than all the selfish divorced heteros could ever show must be bad, right, Bill? Attacking homosexuals is just about the last bastion of acceptable discrimination in this country, notwithstanding the court's continued support for, and encouragement of, racism. Frist, along with his fellow "nazis" such as Republican Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, are intent on continuing to hammer gays - and the rest of us - with his "nazi" norms and values, and the hell with "local."
Frist probably feels that this is the perfect time to change the Constitution to inflict his norms and mores on the rest of us, inasmuch as the Republicans feel that a second term for Mr. Bush is already a done deal, so "we won't need gays' votes." (Glad to know that gays are worth something to Frist!) But irrational comments such as Frist's, let alone his dangerous attempts to change the Constitution to add a "Bill of No Rights" section, will not sit well with gays or anyone else who is paying attention. Keep it up, Bill, and you can forget those votes, for gays will not be voting for Bush - or you! Frist's comments and support for taking away citizens' privacy rights borders on behavior we would only expect to see from the democrats.
Truth is that Bill Frist and his ilk are exactly the reason why the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights should remain entirely untouched and unchanged. Leave it alone and let it - and us - live!
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