I am mindful that we're all sinners...
-- George W. Bush, speaking for -- uh, somebody -- umm, and showing just
how out of touch he really is with everybody except Evangelical Christians
of the politically idolatrous variety. Bush is saying that there ought to
be a law that would deny Americans the basic right to enter into a union
with a partner of their choice and receive the same benefits as anyone who
practices the Christian rite of monogamous heterosexual marriage -- even
though there already is such a law, the Defense of Marriage Act, signed by
President Clinton in 1996; speaking at a Rose Garden news conference on
July 30, 2003. Quoted from Neil A. Lewis, "Bush Backs Bid to Block Gays
From Marrying" (The New York Times: July 30, 2003) =86=86
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