Your view: Vote Democratic

As the upcoming mid-term elections are approaching, the Bush Administration is again proposing a Constitutional amendment to ban same sex marriage. Bush, along with the Republican party, is up to their same old tricks.

After several years of one failure after another, they are banking on the same sex marriage issue to shore up their shrinking base and hopefully secure votes from some Christian families who are naive enough to have been made to believe that voting for Democrats is a sin.

From the rush to war in Iraq without a winning exit strategy, to the disastrous response to the victims of hurricane Katrina, illegal wire tapping, massive tax cuts to big oil companies while they enjoy record profits, record high gas prices, thousands of high paying industrial job losses, price increases in almost all consumer products, skyrocketing health care cost, employees paying more out of pocket dollars for health care coverage, increasing college tuitions, immigration problems, added financial burdens on local municipalities and school districts from lack of federal funding due to the massive tax breaks for the rich and corporate America, cuts in Medicare and Medicaid benefits for the elderly, the poor and disabled, along with many other problems, including deteriorating relations with other countries.

Now, with all these problems that need to be addressed, how in the world can you justify all of a sudden bringing up the same sex marriage issue? This is an issue that states are deciding and there is no need for a federal constitutional amendment. Could bringing this issue to the front burner have something to do with the mid-term elections in November? The low poll numbers of support for Republicans and Bush could have something to do with bringing this back to debate. It has worked before, but I think the American people have more important matters that have surfaced to the top.

If the American people want more of the same and can't yet say, "I've had enough" then continue to vote Republican and allow things to proceed as they are. If you are ready for a change then the Democratic party is the party that is truly inclusive and represents all American citizens.

Erwin Porter