Actually, the timing of this makes me sick. It is such obvious pandering by Bush and the Pubs to the right wing of his party who are disgusted at them all because of the immigration issue. So they pull the tried and true rabbit out of the hat, conservative social issues. Of course, Bush has done nothing about this for the first 4 years of his term, nor during the last two years, after having used the constitutional marriage amendement as a campaign issue this last time around. It's all such a phony ploy to placate the right wing of the party during a mid-term election year. And he and the congressional Pubs will throw out a few other conservative social issue bones to us in short order, to placate us for all of the other major issues, in particular illegal immigration, that they choose to push on an unwilling public. This makes me sick, as it is such obvious pandering, regardless of the value of the subject matter. And they do this, knowing the marriage amendment bill will never pass anyway. It's all so psychologically fraudulent.