Marriage Amendment - Will It Hurt Or Help President Bush

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Marriage Amendment: Will It Hurt Or Help President Bush

See also Marriage News February 2004 , News Headlines 25 Feb 2004

• Sometimes you win for losing - John Feehery, spokeman for Speaker Dennis Hastert
• Activist courts have left the people with one recorse. If we're to prevent the meaning of marriage from being changed forever, our nation must enact a constitutional amendment to protect marriage in America, - President George Bush
  
• It is wrong to write discrimination into the U.S. Constitution, and it is shameful to use attacks against gay and lesbian families as an election strategy - Terry McAuliffe?Create|Search Democratic National Committee Chairman
• Leading constitutional law scholars have come out and said that what the president is supporting ... would indeed strike at the heart of any state's ability to pass domestic partnership benefits [and] civil unions - Cheryl Jacques, President of the Human Rights Campaign
• There is no assurance that the Defense of Marriage Act will not itself be struck down by activist courts. In that event, every state would be forced to recognize any relationship that judges in Boston or officials in San Francisco choose to call a marriage. - President George Bush
• I think it will actually encourage his base to know for sure that our president stands for the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman, Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colorado
• a rogue mayor in San Francisco - Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colorado
• an encouragement to people who believe in the traditional definition of marriage. - Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colorado
• "I don't think he's going to lose votes. I think he's going to gain votes. I think the conservatives sometimes get disillusioned and decide to stay home, and feel like it doesn't really make any difference. But I think they are going to be encouraged to come out and vote, - Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colorado
• "This is a dramatically bad step for the president. He might get a little bump in the polls for a few days, but we all remember in 1992 when Pat Buchanan declared a cultural war on the country and it led to the defeat of the first President Bush. This is not a way to win an election -- it's a way to divide the American family." - Patrick Guerriero, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, homosexual rights activist group
• "We can't sugarcoat this. This amendment was written by the radical right in an attempt to make sure gay and lesbian families who want tax fairness won't get it." - Patrick Guerriero, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, homosexual rights activist group
• "the falling poll numbers, on the deficit and the lack of jobs that have been produced." - Patrick Guerriero, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, homosexual rights activist group
• "In addition to those one million gay Republicans reported to have voted for Bush, we are talking about their friends and family members who care about this issue. And also that 1 million people is an important number when you consider that President Bush lost the popular vote in 2000." - Patrick Guerriero, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, homosexual rights activist group
• "His views have always been well known on this very issue." - White House spokesman Scott McClellan?Create|Search
• "stand up and say I don't support gay marriage." - George Bush on gay marriage during South Carolina CNN Republican primary debate
• "People should be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to enter into. It's really no one else's business, in terms of trying to regulate or prohibit behavior in that regard." - Dick Cheney, vice presidential debate in 2000
• ''"I think different states are likely to come to different conclusions, and that's appropriate. I don't think there should necessarily be a federal policy in this area. I try to be open-minded about it as much as I can and tolerant of those relationships. ... (I) wrestle with the extent of which there ought to be legal sanction of those relationships. I think we ought to do everything we can to tolerate and accommodate whatever kind of relationships people want to enter into." - Dick Cheney, vice presidential debate in 2000
• Dick Cheney's daughter is a lesbian. She is involved in the Colorado gay community.

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