Dear Bill Frist:
Monday, June 5th, 2006I’ve gotten the criticism that my blog tends to be too much about what I ate for lunch and not enough about what I think and feel about things. So, here’s a (small) taste:
Okay, like most angry liberals I get e-mails frequently from Move-on.org. Today I got an e-mail from them about Bill Frist reintroducing the marriage ammendment to congress. I also heard about it on NPR (like most card-carrying liberals). I tried to call my senators, but of course their lines were busy and their mailboxes full. So I settled for signing a petition to go to Bill Frist “demanding” that he not take the marriage ammendment before congress. And here is the “persoal message” I wrote to him:
Mr. Frist,
Although I am not one of you supporters, I respectfully request that you take this shameful ammendment off the table. It distracts our congressmen and women from much more pressing and important matters, such as the health care crises, the controversy of domestic spying and the war in Iraq. I do not expect all people to agree with gay and lesbian marriage, but there are many laws on the books that I as a liberal do not agree with and yet I respect and abide. It just doesn’t seem right that we should pass an ammendment restricting people’s rights. Gays and lesbians marrying HURTS NO ONE. Guns kill thousands of people a year in this country, and yet we allow people to carry them. Please, see reason on this.
I thought it was very respectful and tempered considering how royally PISSED OFF I am about this.
