Laura Bush News; and House

I found an interesting story about Laura Bush today (which is very rare). I shouldn't say it's interesting, because it's basically a nonstory. "Women supports abortion and same-sex marriage!" I'm glad we don't have to have a news article for each of the millions of women for which that is true. This is only news, of course, because she is George Bush's wife.

The interesting part is that it does suggest some dissention in the primarily socially conservative Bush family. It also gives same-sex marriage an unlikely proponent. I rather enjoyed her statement, which was said better than I possibly could say it: "There are a lot of people who have trouble coming to terms with that because they see marriage as traditionally between a man and a woman. But I also know that, you know, when couples are committed to each other and love each other, that they ought to have, I think, the same sort of rights that everyone has."

Laura Bush is directly attacking the "traditional marriage" notion, and I give her praise for that. She also predicts a shift in the direction of full legalization of same-sex marriage. It probably takes at least a little bit of courage to say these things when you are stuck in very conservative circles most of the time. The fact that Laura Bush favors same-sex marriage or abortion means, ultimately, very little, but it's just nice to hear such things coming from an unlikely source.

Sort of related, everyone should watch one of the newer episodes of House, which centralizes issues of sexual identity:



I may actually analyze some of the issues that the episode raises, but that will have to wait until another day.