[sinkspur]

It is fairly obvious that Bush used conservative Christian's concern over homosexual marriage to win a few million extra votes. That single issue is one of the biggest reasons that he is still President. Some people voted for him on that issue alone, their concern for the family was so great.

What, exactly, is the president's role in passing a constitutional amendment (which is what a ban on gay marriage would require)?

[Zack Nguyen]

As in all important issues, the President's most important role is one of advocacy. The President uses his influence and political capital to get what he wants from Congress, as he tried to do with Social Security reform and is trying to do with immigration reform. He has done nothing in his second term with the issue of homosexual marriage. We assume that the judges he has appointed (most of them, anyway) will vote against the erasing of Defense of MArriage Acts across the country, but we can't be sure. And as far as passing a constitutional amendment, nothing productive has been done on that score. It is a useful issue to most Washignton Republicans, nothing more.

[Torie]

Bush should have spent more time using his bully pulpit pushing a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage than on the war on terror, because the former is a greater treat to the survival of the America we know and love, than the latter.

Just some random keyboard punching.