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Jeb Bushs Emails as Governor Show His Feelings on Same-Sex Marriage, NYT, August 25, 2015Jeb Bush campaigning last week in Columbia, S.C.Credit Rainier Ehrhardt/Associated Press
Mr. Cortada, an artist, was alarmed that Mr. Bushs brother, President George W. Bush, was proposing to amend the Constitution to outlaw same-sex marriage and was unsettled that the governor backed the idea.
When one of us is denied equality, then all of us are denied liberty, Mr. Cortada wrote to Mr. Bush. Today, I am feeling particularly denied and particularly unequal.
Could they discuss this further, Mr. Cortada asked?
Mr. Bushs reply is polite and sensitive, but at times clinical and moralistic he writes of contractual obligations. The governor ultimately seems unmoved by the letters demand for equality.
I dont believe that your relationship should be afforded the same status in the law as a man and a woman agreeing to marriage, he wrote.
The letter is one of dozens at the heart of a new e-book by Mr. Bush, titled Reply All, that goes on sale Tuesday night. It is a memoir of his governorship told through the email exchanges he had with staff members, the news media and residents of Florida.
The e-mail exchange is in full, at the link.
Bushes never outgrow their bigotry.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)This is why we need to win.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)When Michael Schiavo decided to carry out his wife's wishes not to live forever as a vegetable, which is he is legally allowed to do as part of a "traditional" marriage, Bush interfered in that.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)You do know what the SCOTUS is, right? Are you sure the presidency is the right place for you? I suggest withdrawing, since you don't appear to support our constitutional republic.
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)Without disagreeing with your sentiment and certainly not in defense of Governor Bush, the correspondence is from 2004.
I doubt that the Governor's opinion has evolved, however.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)Heh.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)Darb
(2,807 posts)that he doesn't want us to see. Like the shady-ass deals he made with the federal hurricane relief money in 2004, an election year for his brother.
forest444
(5,902 posts)the_sly_pig
(741 posts)Even the conservative morans on the Supreme Court disagree with Jebenezer the Simpleton. Get over it already, its so three months ago......
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)Is this book likely to get Bush closer to
a) the nomination?
b) the presidency?
seafan
(9,387 posts)Thank you, and I would refer you to this piece I put up this morning.
This whole "e-book" is another pathetic attempt to shift eyes away from his actual record.
If the "Mainstream Media" would get up off of its stenographer's backside, put down their DC cocktail glasses and so some real investigating and REPORTING, fewer and fewer people would be undecided over Jeb Bush's so-called *competency*.
It absolutely makes me furious what this character has skated away from thus far.