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To: Hildy
"for the 100th time...what does it matter what the President thinks about gay marriage. It is a States issue.."

Do any of the Rudy supporters know how our system of government works, or are you purposely forgetting it?

The President of These United States has more then a little to do with passage of any bill.

Heres the facts, if the Senate and House passes a Pro-Gay bill(IE. Gay Marriage), which is very possible given the current make-up of the House and Senate,and the President is Pro-Gay then the bill passes and becomes law.

If the President is Anti-Gay-Marriage and this same type of bill passes, the President vetos said bill, the House and Senate has to get a 2/3 majority to override the veto.

Which is very unlikely because there are more than 1/3 of the House and Senate that would not want this bill passed. Might want to brush up on this countries politics before making such a statement.

37 posted on 02/18/2007 2:55:44 PM PST by Post-Neolithic (Money only makes Communists rich Communists)
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To: Post-Neolithic
Heres the facts, if the Senate and House passes a Pro-Gay bill(IE. Gay Marriage), which is very possible given the current make-up of the House and Senate,and the President is Pro-Gay then the bill passes and becomes law. If the President is Anti-Gay-Marriage and this same type of bill passes, the President vetos said bill, the House and Senate has to get a 2/3 majority to override the veto.

Nice try, but marriage is defined at the stat level.
50 posted on 02/18/2007 3:00:18 PM PST by LtdGovt ("Where government moves in, community retreats and civil society disintegrates" -Janice Rogers Brown)
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