“The sacred institution of marriage should not be redefined by a few activist judges,” said President Bush, renewing his support for a proposed constitutional ban that has been introduced in Congress.
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“Fifty years ago today, nine judges announced that they had looked at the Constitution and saw no justification for the segregation and humiliation of an entire race,” Bush said at the opening of a national historic site at Monroe Elementary, a former all-black school in the heartland of the school desegregation effort.
I sincerely hope that quotes like the first one, and all the vitriol that’s been spread about same-sex marriage, are archived and trotted out to amazed eyes in another 50 years, when the idea of denying gay people basic rights is just as unthinkable as denying black people’s rights is today.