Immigration reform is not about gay marriage and it will be more than difficult to relate why that was an important amendment to this bill. Gay status among immigrants isn't really threatened in the USA. Gay marriage has to stand on it's own to be a legitimate part of civil rights.
Same sex marriage is almost a non-issue in more and more states. Why jeopardize a good opinion of same sex marriage by hiding it in an immigration bill? Quite frankly I thought the gay community has proved themselves with dignity and integrity to 'slide it through' on another bill. Take for example what the community is equating to by including the same methodology as Mike Lee. Mike Lee is a sleeve bag. Bigot. Racist. Opportunist. Mike Lee even gives capitalism a bad name. Please don't affiliate with a method of these jerks.
Everyone know that amendments to bills are not welcome by the public. Amendments change things. How often do people endorse a bill openly only to be disappointed by all the garbage attached to it, including earmarks. What good is an Executive Branch if all the funding is earmarked? Seriously. The real meaning of legislation is not to seek damages to the priorities of the country it is to uphold the integrity of the purpose of the nation. That doesn't exist in the USA anymore. I would love for President Obama to talk about the junk attached to bills when he signs them. I am sure his signing statements are more than interesting.
Legislation is suppose to uphold the purpose of the nation to grow, change, remove social prejudice, etc.; but, all to often there are amendments attached to legislation completely irrelevant and/or detracting from the original purpose of the bill. That is not what an amendment is suppose to do. An amendment is suppose to reflect a positive effect on the purpose and help uphold it should the originating committee have omitted a vital aspect of the writing of the original bill.
I don't really care how 'business is done' in Washington. That is the problem in DC. Sliding all kinds of junk through because a bill is popular and vital to the nation is sleevy. Basically, it is corrupt. Everyone complains about the way business it done in DC. Does the gay community actually want that imposed on their quite remarkable image actually.
Who saved their own lives when HIV became a reality? Sure there was research and the discovery of a drug and it was immediately released to stem the progress of the disease. But, in the early days, who really saved the lives of gay citizens? The community itself. It has a proud heritage. The community is magnificent. Don't allow ideas of exclusion to impact that dignity. Please. I don't presume to know how much desire for a national same-sex permission is felt by the community, but, I do know the people of the community are remarkable.
Do it right. We are waiting for the Supreme Court. It will be a more than wonderful place to start.
By Gail Collins
Same sex marriage is almost a non-issue in more and more states. Why jeopardize a good opinion of same sex marriage by hiding it in an immigration bill? Quite frankly I thought the gay community has proved themselves with dignity and integrity to 'slide it through' on another bill. Take for example what the community is equating to by including the same methodology as Mike Lee. Mike Lee is a sleeve bag. Bigot. Racist. Opportunist. Mike Lee even gives capitalism a bad name. Please don't affiliate with a method of these jerks.
Everyone know that amendments to bills are not welcome by the public. Amendments change things. How often do people endorse a bill openly only to be disappointed by all the garbage attached to it, including earmarks. What good is an Executive Branch if all the funding is earmarked? Seriously. The real meaning of legislation is not to seek damages to the priorities of the country it is to uphold the integrity of the purpose of the nation. That doesn't exist in the USA anymore. I would love for President Obama to talk about the junk attached to bills when he signs them. I am sure his signing statements are more than interesting.
Legislation is suppose to uphold the purpose of the nation to grow, change, remove social prejudice, etc.; but, all to often there are amendments attached to legislation completely irrelevant and/or detracting from the original purpose of the bill. That is not what an amendment is suppose to do. An amendment is suppose to reflect a positive effect on the purpose and help uphold it should the originating committee have omitted a vital aspect of the writing of the original bill.
I don't really care how 'business is done' in Washington. That is the problem in DC. Sliding all kinds of junk through because a bill is popular and vital to the nation is sleevy. Basically, it is corrupt. Everyone complains about the way business it done in DC. Does the gay community actually want that imposed on their quite remarkable image actually.
Who saved their own lives when HIV became a reality? Sure there was research and the discovery of a drug and it was immediately released to stem the progress of the disease. But, in the early days, who really saved the lives of gay citizens? The community itself. It has a proud heritage. The community is magnificent. Don't allow ideas of exclusion to impact that dignity. Please. I don't presume to know how much desire for a national same-sex permission is felt by the community, but, I do know the people of the community are remarkable.
Do it right. We are waiting for the Supreme Court. It will be a more than wonderful place to start.
By Gail Collins
New York Times
Posted: 12:00 a.m. Saturday, May 25, 2013...High points in the committee’s long slog (click here) toward passage included a proposal from tea party icon Mike Lee of Utah to exempt employers of “cooks, waiters, butlers, housekeepers, governesses, maids, valets, baby sitters, janitors, laundresses, furnacemen, caretakers, handymen, gardeners, footmen, grooms and chauffeurs of automobiles for family use” from checking to make sure their help had the proper legal status. It didn’t go anywhere, but if you happen to run into Lee, feel free to say: “The butler did it.”
The most painful low point in the committee’s deliberations came at the end, when the Democrats gave up on an amendment allowing same-sex spouses the same right as heterosexuals to apply for permanent resident status for their partners. It’s not every day when you hear a senator announce that he had decided to support a move that involved “rank discrimination.” But the Republicans who were needed to get an immigration bill through the Senate had made it supremely clear that if any hint of gay marriage entered the legislation, they were going to take their toys and go home....
