Priorities

There is a multitude of issues, many crucial, this country must deal with. 45 million people without health care. Of course H.R. 676 is stuck in committee. What about the war? Any hearings about why we were lied to about those wmd's? How about Plamegate? Why aren't there hearings about why an undercover CIA agent working on Iran's nuclear program was outed illegally for political reasons? Voting. Our most precious right is being undermined by unsecure electronic voting machines. Any effort to correct the mistakes made in HAVA? How about Medicare PartD? Any attempt to fix that?

We could go on and on. There are a lot of important issues. Renewable energy resources. The national debt and deficit spending. So what issues has Bill Frist decided are the most crucial? Hold onto your hat because these are major. The two most important issues facing the United States Senate are gay marriage and flag burning. The President of the United States announced today he is in favor of sexual apartheid. Creating two classes of rights: one for straight people and another for gays. So much for living in the land of the free. Now the Fourteenth Amendment bites the dust. That's the one that guarantees "equal justice under law."

When are they going to remove that phrase from the entrance of the Supreme Court? If it doesn't apply anymore I say we make them remove it. Let's not be hypocrits about this. We want to write legal discrimination into our constitutions, state and federal.

Who wants to be next on the list once we set this precedent? Women? African Americans? Hispanics? Legal immigrants? It is a slippery slope.