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perspective
this is lifted wholesale from a Netscape News page about Bush's opposition to legalizing gay marriage:
``After more than two centuries of American jurisprudence and millennia of human experience, a few judges and local authorities are presuming to change the most fundamental institution of civilization,'' the president said... ``Their action has created confusion on an issue that requires clarity.''
now dig this:
``After nearly a century of American jurisprudence, and millennia of human experience, a few judges and local authorities are presuming to change the most fundamental institution of civilization,'' the president said... ``Their action has created confusion on an issue that requires clarity.'' -- that was my version of Bush's advice [if he were able to time-travel] to Millard Fillmore in response to some hypothetical, similar attempts to abolish slavery.
how is this gay marriage kafuffle going to appear to Americans 100+ years from now?
``After more than two centuries of American jurisprudence and millennia of human experience, a few judges and local authorities are presuming to change the most fundamental institution of civilization,'' the president said... ``Their action has created confusion on an issue that requires clarity.''
now dig this:
``After nearly a century of American jurisprudence, and millennia of human experience, a few judges and local authorities are presuming to change the most fundamental institution of civilization,'' the president said... ``Their action has created confusion on an issue that requires clarity.'' -- that was my version of Bush's advice [if he were able to time-travel] to Millard Fillmore in response to some hypothetical, similar attempts to abolish slavery.
how is this gay marriage kafuffle going to appear to Americans 100+ years from now?