Not content with having the homophobic Defense of Marriage Act enacted at the level of federal legislation, a Religious Right group called the Alliance for Marriage has proposed a strategy to enshrine a ban on gay marriage in the United States Constitution. Not only would the proposed amendment trample on states’ rights to enable gay marriage where they see fit, but it would also destroy all laws which give gay couples the equivalent privileges of marriage, such as Vermont’s Civil Unions law. Although I have deep reservations about the idea of gay marriage and want marriage-privilege abolished rather than extended to lesbian and gay male couples, we cannot stand for this kind of overt homophobia and discrimination being put into the highest law of the land. As long as State-recognized marriages exist, the government should not discriminate on the basis of gender or sexuality as to who can have them.

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A report in Roll Call reveals that CNN chief Walter Isaacson has been powwowing with GOP leaders to work on ways to attract more Right-wing viewers, whose news-viewing has been increasingly taken by Right-wing propaganda outlet FOX News Channel. Corporate News Network decides that its niche market in the moderate Right-of-center that passes for mainstream American politics is falling apart, and they now must do outreach to the far Right zealots as well. And so it goes.