The Worm Has Turned

For the past three years, Andrew Sullivan
has been one of George W. Bush's loudest cheerleaders. In countless
articles in magazines like Time, Front Page, and the National Review,
Sullivan has stood behind Bush through thick and thin. His right-wing
blog is one of the most widely read on the internet, attracting
approximately 60,000 readers per day who log in to read why Andy backs
his boy W on The War on Terror, tax cut after tax cut, and scandal
after scandal.
Until now. You see, Andrew Sullivan is a homosexual.

The president launched a war today against the civil
rights of gay citizens and their families. And just as importantly, he
launched a war to defile the most sacred document in the land. Rather
than allow the contentious and difficult issue of equal marriage rights
to be fought over in the states, rather than let politics and the law
take their course, rather than keep the Constitution out of the culture
wars, this president wants to drag the very founding document into his
re-election campaign. He is proposing to remove civil rights from one
group of American citizens - and do so in the Constitution itself. The
message could not be plainer: these citizens do not fully belong in
America. Their relationships must be stigmatized in the very
Constitution itself. The document that should be uniting the country
will now be used to divide it, to single out a group of people for
discrimination itself, and to do so for narrow electoral purposes. Not
since the horrifying legacy of Constitutional racial discrimination in
this country has such a goal been even thought of, let alone pursued.
Those of us who supported this president in 2000, who have backed him
whole-heartedly during the war, who have endured scorn from our peers
as a result, who trusted that this president was indeed a uniter rather
than a divider, now know the truth.

It's been amazing to watch Andy go through the painful realization that
George Bush is neither his friend nor America's friend. Sullivan's blog has suddenly become required reading, and I expect it will remain so for quite some time.

Posted by flow Frazao on February 25, 2004 at 07:50 AM | Permalink