Bush wants U.S. Constitution amended to ban gay marriage
 

Bush wants U.S. Constitution amended to ban gay marriage
Last Updated Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:55:08
WASHINGTON - U.S. President George W. Bush called for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage on Tuesday.

Blaming activist courts and local officials, Bush said the institution of marriage is in danger of being changed forever.

"Attempts to redefine marriage … could have serious consequences," he said.

In a news conference, Bush said he is calling on Congress to prepare a constitutional amendment that would "define and protect marriage as the union of a man and woman as husband and wife."

A Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently ruled that barring gay couples from marrying is unconstitutional.

Earlier this month, San Francisco city hall began issuing "gender neutral" marriage licences. More than 3,200 same-sex couples were married in a period of several days.

Individual states, Bush said, would be free to define other "legal arrangements."

An amendment to the U.S. Constitution needs to pass both houses of Congress with a two-thirds majority, and needs the approval of 38 states.

At least 38 states have already passed laws or amendments banning gay marriage.

A bill to amend the Constitution has been put before the House of Representatives by Colorado Republican Marilyn Musgrave. Bush didn't specifically endorse the proposed legislation in his announcement on Tuesday.

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Let the flames begin...now!

with liberty and justice for all...provided of course that you are anglo-saxon protestant annoy:

bush is a closet homo anyway. he got funky with victor ashe so i guess this anti gay thing is a way of bush saying to the world "i am straight".

president fag.

Guess that means gayblade can't get married to Blitz oOo:

I think they should just do marry who they want, it's not sweat off my back.

They do thier thing, i'll do mine. this might not get bush relected, at least not any votes from the gay community im sure.

Dingadangadingadangadingadang


Wouldn't expect less from an inbred chimp anyway.

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mad: THAT IS BS!!!!!!! mad:

Who is to say that someone can't join in marriage because they are the same sex... separation of church and state my ass!!! that really makes me mad!

calmdown:

For crying out loud, now hes trying to amend the constitution over this shit?? I swear this is so freakin petty and a waste of our time. What is the big god damned deal about this. If he is so worried about the 'sanctity' of marriage being diminished, he should focus more on the divorce rate than this.

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Hes pretty worried..They just scrapped the Terror Alert Level and put in the Gayness alert

[img]http://www.daplayazclub.com/uploads/gaynessthreat.jpg[/img]

LOL!! biggrin:

There goes all the Republican votes from San Francisco... biggrin:

This is just fucking ridiculous.

Here is the solution:

Don't call it marriage. Call it a civil union or what the hell ever. Let them do whatever they want and get the same benefits, but don't call it marriage.

If I have to be tolerant and respectful of everyone else's beliefs, why does everyone get to flame and ignore mine? Marriage is a word of Biblical origin. Period. It didn't come from anywhere but the Bible. So let us keep the sanctity of our religion just like we have to acknowledge the sanctity of everyone else's.

Fuck.

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