Defending marriage sounds like a good idea. The notion is really romantic, actually. White horses, brave knights and the like. It conjures images of Wesley rolling down the hillside yelling to Buttercup “as you wish,” in The Princess Bride.

The Defense of Marriage Act seeks to prevent Americans from marrying as they see fit. It will apply religious dogma to basic freedoms. It is designed to blatantly discriminate against homosexual Americans just because they are gay. Anyone in support of the Defense of Marriage Act is essentially saying to the international community that the United States is in support of bigotry and hatred; that we are in support of a moral caste system that can turn on anyone with the turn of a catchy, romantic phrase.

There is a reason people came to North America: to not be subjected to someone else’s overbearing religious beliefs. For any group to place legal sanctions against another there must be a legal reasoning, not a moral one because morals are relative. Doing so, insults every deadly winter or treacherous sea passage made to what was bound to become the most shining example of democracy in the history of the world.

This is one of the most shameful debates in the history of our beautiful country. And it’s a smokescreen designed by George W. Bush’s handlers to distract Americans from the bigger issues at hand.

We are chest deep into a war that appears to have no end in sight. The cost of living in some areas of the nation is so high that we are seeing bank foreclosure signs all over the place. Students aren’t able to keep up academically on the international scene. Gas prices are bubbling up over the $3 mark in the Heartland, traditionally one of the cheapest areas to fill up. That’s not good news for a nation that is as dependent on fossil fuels as Joan Rivers is on cosmetic surgery.

The last thing that needs to happen to this country is deeper division, especially if those divisions are to be rooted in someone else’s religious dogma. The notion that the Holy Bible should be the basis of all lawmaking in the land is ethnocentric poppycock.

All Americans are granted equal protection under the law and the only time in modern-day America that we see restrictions on an American’s rights is when they are convicted of a felony. A convicted rapist does not have the right to vote, but unlike his gay non-raping counterpart, he can get married and have a family without any Congressional scrutiny.

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