Here's an amendment for ya

The Watcher notes that the American Anthropological Society has a reply to President Bush's call for a constitutional amendment (Whatever happened to the Republican ideal of government staying out of people's lives?):

Statement on Marriage and the Family from the American Anthropological Association

Arlington, Virginia; The Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association, the world's largest organization of anthropologists, the people who study culture, releases the following statement in response to President Bush's call for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage as a threat to civilization.

"The results of more than a century of anthropological research on households, kinship relationships, and families, across cultures and through time, provide no support whatsoever for the view that either civilization or viable social orders depend upon marriage as an exclusively heterosexual institution. Rather, anthropological research supports the conclusion that a vast array of family types, including families built upon same-sex partnerships, can contribute to stable and humane societies.

The Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association strongly opposes a constitutional amendment limiting marriage to heterosexual couples."

I read an article in SFGate about Belgium. Belgium and other European countries have already granted same-sex marriage or simply changed marriage to be called "civil unions" in order to offer equal protection to anyone who chooses to be in a union with another person. [Of course it's Spain and Italy resists the tide of Europe thanks to the Vatican.] Anyway, it was big the first year, then has dwindled a bit. There have even been some registered divorces as well. Looking back now, the issues of same-sex marriage aren't that big of a deal. It didn't tear at the fabric of society, the world didn't head to utter chaotic oblivion. People just live their lives. Isn't that we all just want to do?