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He sidestepped the issue when questioned by People magazine about whether he still held that belief."

You fall for the ploy of the press, which is if someone doesn't specifically mention something, that means they are avoiding it. So the interviewer asks the President what he thinks of Mary Cheney's child, he makes a polite comment, and the press extrapolates "AHA! He's avoiding the issue, he's changed his mind! The base will be upset!"
This thread is full of fools.

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You claimed "You fall for the ploy of the press, which is if someone doesn't specifically mention something, that means they are avoiding it"

Try reading the quotation from the article again. He was specifically asked whether he still still held that belief. You calling people fools will not change that. George Bush did side step the issue.

"In a 2005 interview with The New York Times, Bush said: "I believe children can receive love from gay couples but the ideal is -- and studies have shown that the ideal is where a child is raised in a married family with a man and a woman."

He side stepped the issue when questioned by People magazine about whether he still held that belief."

As I said before, he could simply have stated , Yes I still believe this.