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Wed, 14 Jan 2004

Bush Plans $1.5 Billion Drive for Promotion of Marriage

Gee, what an important issue to spend over a billion dollars on ... especially when such a "promotion" is naught but the extension of a religious agenda.

At this point, I'd come closer to voting for that nutcase Denis "The Menace" Kucinich than I would for George Bush.

The initiative comes at a time when the administration is under pressure from conservatives eager to see the government defend traditional marriage.

(link) [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

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PonyTailed Writer wrote

Hmmm...

"...the proposal...would provide at least $1.5 billion for training to help couples develop interpersonal skills that sustain 'healthy marriages.'" This, in itself, sounds like a good idea, were it not, as you said, yoked to a religious agenda. I'd love to see what happens when two gay men try to sign up for the "interpersonal skills" class.

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PonyTailed Writer wrote

Hey...

What happened to my line-breaks? That was supposed to be three pargraphs. Whassup widdat?

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Dave H wrote

Line Breaks ...

aren't added by Blosxom. One of the little things I've yet to get around to fixing. In fact, until you mentioned it, good sirrah, I'd not noticed (I don't leave myself too many multi-line comments, although I did leave a couple just to test things before I put this puppy up). I'm guess I'm just so used to coding in the breaks and tags that I just sorta do it automatically. Another interesting bit I noticed is that I don't seem to be pinging weblogs.com on a new writeback - not sure if I should be or not, I'd never really thought about it. Thanx for point this out - hopefully I'll have better luck fixing it than our two gay friends would have getting cash out the administration for an interpersonal skills class! Be well, Dave H.

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