Compassion Strikes Again

The Senate Judiciary Committee had a hearing about the Federal Marriage Amendment to the Constitution today. If you don't know what the amendment says, here it is:

Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this constitution or the constitution of any state, nor state or federal law, shall be construed to require that marital status or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon unmarried couples or groups.

This amendment has been publicly and repeatedly supported by President Bush, as part of his compassionate conservative platform.

Also part of his compassionate platform, President Bush's refusal to proclaim June "National Gay Pride Month" and his administration's decision to remove sexual orientation from workplace discrimination statutes. The federal government can now fire someone simply for being a homosexual.

I'm confident that if Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was not ratified, President Bush, as part of his compassionate conservative platform, would wholeheartedly support the following part of Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution:

Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.