CELEBRATE FAMILY WEEK!
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danaerisHerr Diktator Bush has proclaimed the 12th-18th Marriage Protection Week
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/10/20031003-12.html
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
October 3, 2003
Marriage Protection Week, 2003
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Marriage is a sacred institution, and its protection is essential to the continued strength of our society. Marriage Protection Week provides an opportunity to focus our efforts on preserving the sanctity of marriage and on building strong and healthy marriages in America.
Marriage is a union between a man and a woman, and my Administration is working to support the institution of marriage by helping couples build successful marriages and be good parents.
To encourage marriage and promote the well-being of children, I have proposed a healthy marriage initiative to help couples develop the skills and knowledge to form and sustain healthy marriages. Research has shown that, on average, children raised in households headed by married parents fare better than children who grow up in other family structures. Through education and counseling programs, faith-based, community, and government organizations promote healthy marriages and a better quality of life for children. By supporting responsible child-rearing and strong families, my Administration is seeking to ensure that every child can grow up in a safe and loving home.
We are also working to make sure that the Federal Government does not penalize marriage. My tax relief package eliminated the marriage penalty. And as part of the welfare reform package I have proposed, we will do away with the rules that have made it more difficult for married couples to move out of poverty.
We must support the institution of marriage and help parents build stronger families. And we must continue our work to create a compassionate, welcoming society, where all people are treated with dignity and respect.
During Marriage Protection Week, I call on all Americans to join me in expressing support for the institution of marriage with all its benefits to our people, our culture, and our society.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim the week of October 12 through October 18, 2003, as Marriage Protection Week. I call upon the people of the United States to observe this week with appropriate programs, activities, and ceremonies.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this third day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-eighth.
GEORGE W. BUSH
I'm very serious. I want to organize a protest. Sometime on one of the weekend days included in there, I want to hold a mass marriage ceremony in a park. Same sex couples, het couples, groups, all welcome.
If you're interested in helping organize this, think it is a great idea, or think it is a horrible idea, please contact me. For flames and suggestions, please comment. For actual volunteers (anyone with experience organizing anything like this), please email me at questioner at lj daht com. (expand appropriately)
I'm so excited!
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/10/20031003-12.html
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
October 3, 2003
Marriage Protection Week, 2003
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Marriage is a sacred institution, and its protection is essential to the continued strength of our society. Marriage Protection Week provides an opportunity to focus our efforts on preserving the sanctity of marriage and on building strong and healthy marriages in America.
Marriage is a union between a man and a woman, and my Administration is working to support the institution of marriage by helping couples build successful marriages and be good parents.
To encourage marriage and promote the well-being of children, I have proposed a healthy marriage initiative to help couples develop the skills and knowledge to form and sustain healthy marriages. Research has shown that, on average, children raised in households headed by married parents fare better than children who grow up in other family structures. Through education and counseling programs, faith-based, community, and government organizations promote healthy marriages and a better quality of life for children. By supporting responsible child-rearing and strong families, my Administration is seeking to ensure that every child can grow up in a safe and loving home.
We are also working to make sure that the Federal Government does not penalize marriage. My tax relief package eliminated the marriage penalty. And as part of the welfare reform package I have proposed, we will do away with the rules that have made it more difficult for married couples to move out of poverty.
We must support the institution of marriage and help parents build stronger families. And we must continue our work to create a compassionate, welcoming society, where all people are treated with dignity and respect.
During Marriage Protection Week, I call on all Americans to join me in expressing support for the institution of marriage with all its benefits to our people, our culture, and our society.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim the week of October 12 through October 18, 2003, as Marriage Protection Week. I call upon the people of the United States to observe this week with appropriate programs, activities, and ceremonies.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this third day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-eighth.
GEORGE W. BUSH
I'm very serious. I want to organize a protest. Sometime on one of the weekend days included in there, I want to hold a mass marriage ceremony in a park. Same sex couples, het couples, groups, all welcome.
If you're interested in helping organize this, think it is a great idea, or think it is a horrible idea, please contact me. For flames and suggestions, please comment. For actual volunteers (anyone with experience organizing anything like this), please email me at questioner at lj daht com. (expand appropriately)
I'm so excited!
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Date: 2003-10-06 04:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-07 03:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-07 09:12 am (UTC)William Rehnquist, Clarence Thomas, and Antonin Scalia.
Ask me a harder one. ;-P
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Date: 2003-10-08 11:28 am (UTC)ok, harder question:
would you call your election system democratic? (i'm not saying that ours is better)
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Date: 2003-10-08 11:47 am (UTC)Sadly, the representative aspects have largely been corrupted by the influence of campaign finance, and by the fact that it seems like at this point a majority of the electorate is ignorant of even the most basic facts concerning the issues their representatives will have to deal with. (Fund education? But then the voters might know they're getting scammed!)
In theory, practice works just like theory; in practice, it doesn't.
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Date: 2003-10-07 09:44 am (UTC)