What's The Meaning of This?

President Bush has come out in support of a Constitutional Amendment baring gay marriage.

Although Bush said he wanted the Constitution amended to preserve the definition of marriage as being between one man and one woman, he said that states should be allowed to craft laws that recognize other types of relationships.

It all seems rather silly and pointless.

Proposal for the 28th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States

It shall be true in all the states and territories of the United States of America that no legislative or judicial action may alter the definition of the word marriage beyond the following:

mar•riage: n. The legal union of a man and a woman as husband and wife.

This should provide a useful reference for future generations, but I wonder if it goes far enough. The paperback dictionary on my desk has 780 pages of definitions in very small type. Surely there are other words crying out for constitutional definition.

Amendment 29 could give us definition of autonomy. Amendment 30 (XXX) would have to be reserved for constitutional definition of is.

If there are any other words you feel need to be defined via constitutional amendment feel free to leave them in the comments and I will email them all to bush@whitehouse.com.

UPDATE I wrote more about gay marriage at eTalkinghead. There's another great post there on the same topic from Darren Copeland.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 11:13 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment