Important issues in the spotlight

June 7, 2006
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate voted down a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage on Wednesday, but Republicans planned a vote in the House of Representatives to keep a national spotlight on the hot-button issue.

Keep a national spotlight? Hot-button issue? Do people actually give a crap if gay people want to get married? Is it going to destroy marriage for heterosexuals any more than overtaxation leading to two-income families, stress, materialism, dependence on mood-altering pharmaceuticals, self-centeredness, or any of the other societal sicknesses that are acceptable, while "gay marriage" is not?

How about Mike Smith's cartoon from today's LV Sun? Seems that the current illegal and unethical war overseas poses more of a threat to marriage, but there's no Republican plan to keep the spotlight on that. Rather, let's obscure the real issues while keeping the "spotlight" on the ephemeral and inconsequential.