President Bush said Sunday that he will not press the Senate to pass a federal marriage amendment to the Constitution. The President is working quickly to outline his second administration's priorities.

Bush Says He Will Not Push Gay Marriage Amendment
By Jim VandeHei And Michael A. Fletcher
THE WASHINGTON POST
Posted on Sun, Jan. 16, 2005

"In a wide-ranging, 35-minute interview aboard Air Force One on Friday, Bush also laid out new details of his second-term plans for both foreign and domestic policy. For the first time, Bush said he will not press senators to pass a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, the top priority for many social conservative groups..."

Read the entire article at http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/nation/10657618.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

Where will the "values voters" who supported the President because of the proposed amendment go after this? I suggest they go to the following link and get serious about a long-term strategy to protect the family and the institution of marriage:
http://www.constitutionparty.org/party_platform.php#Family

Interesting that the change in Bush's position comes just days after Democrats called on the President to abandon his push for an amendment.

Dems Tell Bush To Lay Off Gays
by Doreen Brandt 365Gay.com Washington Bureau
Posted: January 14, 2005 2:08 pm. ET

(Washington) The Democratic Party launched a petition Friday telling
the White House not to push for a Constitutional amendment banning
gay marriage.

The DNC in its Pride at the Polls newsletter to more than 100,000
party supporters calls on President Bush to abandon his call for the
amendment and to tell House Majority Leader Tom Delay to "stop
discriminating against Americans..."

In an interview on Good Morning America one week before the election,
(story) Bush said that he didn't think "we should deny people rights
to a civil union [or] a legal arrangement if that's what a state
chooses to do." Bush then went on to call "wrong" and disagree with
the portion of the Republican platform that opposed extending to gay
and lesbian families "legal recognition and the accompanying
benefits."

"But Bush can't have it both ways, supporting an amendment that takes
away our rights while saying he wants to leave it up to the states,"
the DNC newsletter says.

"It is time for Bush to move America forward and come out publicly
against this amendment..."

Read the entire article at http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/01/011405bushDNC.htm

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