Rove: we'll be pushing for the FMA

[solarbird]

Well, this hasn't taken very long, now has it?

November 7, 2004 - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush will renew a quest in his second term for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage as essential to a "hopeful and decent" society, his top political aide said on Sunday.

Bush's call for a constitutional ban on gay marriages failed last year in Congress, but his position was seen as a key factor motivating Christian conservatives concerned about "moral values" to turn out in large numbers and help supply Bush with a winning margin in last week's election.

"If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal, and the ideal is that marriage ought to be, and should be, a union of a man and a woman," Bush political aide Karl Rove told "Fox News Sunday."

A transcript of the whole interview is here.

Edit:

And for those of you who are pro-choice, which is most of you, Arlen Specter has alreadybacked off his earlier statements saying that Bush shouldn't nominate judges to overturn Roe v. Wade, saying they'll get a "fair hearing" - and a full Senate vote.

Comments

[avram]

I wonder if he’s going to do it next year, or wait till ’06 so he can use it to energize the far right to try for more gains in the Senate and at the state level.

[solarbird]

Well, as of my post of a couple of days ago, I've been thinking 2006, for the reasons you just stated.

I'm now wondering vaguely whether Rove wants to do this to split the Democratic party in 2005 into two smaller parties. I wonder if he thinks he can pull that off. (I do believe he's one of the people in the Republican camp who want to destroy the Democratic party entirely. But I'm not 100% sure of that.) By not giving the Democrats time to think about anything, he keeps them from being able to do the soul-searching that a party normally needs to do after that kind of election - like the Republicans had to do (and got to do) after Goldwater lost in '64.

[flashfire.livejournal.com]

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What. A. Surprise.

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HOT KARL

[firni.livejournal.com]

I hope your HAT eats your HEAD, you FAT FUCK.

[loopback.livejournal.com]

Where's Banner to tell us all about how this is all the fault of the extremist queers, and this isn't actually happening?

[flashfire.livejournal.com]

Give him time. He's probably ranting and raving about how stereotypically stupid all liberals are again.

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

all I can say is {{{{{{Hugs}}}}}}}} I just came out to one more member of my family today, which brings the total who know to 2, my cuz Laurie (who I've known is gay for a few yrs) and my brother... She asked me how "out" I was, and I said not very... this whole bush anti-gay thing has me scared... she agreed... not many people know about her, because someone at one of her previous jobs found out, and they proceeded to make her life hell...

[chipmunck.livejournal.com]

I really hope American 'in the middle' folks who could 'care less' about Gay Marriage. Meaning a vote For it... aren't all apathetic and will defend the right for Gay Marriage.. Or at least not it's banning.
I wish to scare them with: If Bush can do that, then he could turn back any Civil Rights acts. huh? Huh? Maybe not let woman vote? That's a good Christian Moral isn't it? :( I am soo about to cry.

Oh.. another comment: Let me guess.. He wants to perserve the right to the SANCTITY of Marriage huh? So we can have more reality shows that pimp off women to men in hopes of a big diamond ring? Ohhh that just bleeds Sanctity. *Grumble*

-Chipmunck

[cafiorello.livejournal.com]

fuxx0r.

Yeah, 'cause all the queer folks in committed relationships that want to get married that I know are *so* much more hopeless and indecent than, say, Britney Spears.

Cathy, feeling guilty because she didn't send even *more* money to Specter's opponent....

[solarbird]

Britney Spears
That's the kind of crap that sends me into paroxysms of anger in this debate. That is better than my family. Somehow.