…Mr. Bush, is not the press, but you. Your rhetoric, your policies, your religious fanaticism are the stone in the shoe of United States and the World. As long as you hold office, there will be no coming together. You have acted unilaterally, believing you are divinely ordained, and in the process have alienated half the population. A lucid example is your desire for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. You support writing discrimination into the Constitution; a document depended upon by this country’s citizens to guarantee personal freedom and privacy. By doing so, you segment gay persons as not deserving equal protection of the law. How can you hope for anything but animosity from this rejected and condemned group, their friends and family and any other person that believes in the basic value of every human being? At the same time your stance inflames and entrenches and condones the hatred, prejudice and ignorance of your supporters. Mr. Bush, until you remove the log from your own eye, you will never see why this country is so bitterly divided.