Related articles and links |  1 of 2

Bush: Marriage requires "clarity," amendment to U.S. Constitution
"After more than two centuries of American jurisprudence and millenia of human experience, a few judges and local authorities are presuming to change the most fundamental institution of civilization," President Bush said this morning. "Their action has created confusion on an issue that requires clarity."

And that clarity can come only one way, he said. "If we are to prevent the meaning of marriage from being changed forever, our nation must enact a constitutional amendment to protect marriage in America."

This news is breaking as Weblog hits the posting deadline, but you'll shortly be able to read the full text of Bush's remarks at the White House web site. Expect Bush's endorsement, which did not mention any specific wording for such an amendment, to be a part of the White House Press Briefing at 12:30 Eastern time.

In the meantime, here's a load of articles on gay marriage, homosexuality, and related topics.

More on the Federal Marriage Amendment:

• Marilyn's amendment | The first-term congresswoman who's taking the lead against same-sex marriage (The Weekly Standard)
  
  
• Incidents and accidents | Hints and allegations about the Federal Marriage Amendment (Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review Online)
  
  

Gay marriage:

• Same-sex 'marriage' a thicket for Bush | President Bush, who has hesitated to support a constitutional amendment against homosexual "marriage," is tangled in an issue that could cost him re-election, political analysts and prominent Republicans say (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Gay marriage: Until order, chaos | Now that it has started, the frenzied legal debate over gay marriage will not end with a ruling by any old California trial judge, or by any old California Supreme Court justice, or even by a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court itself (CBS News)
  
  
• Politicians fear backlash from gay 'marriage' | San Francisco's bold experiment in issuing same-sex "marriage" licenses occurs at a critical juncture, both politically and culturally (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Governors skittish over same-sex 'marriage' issue | The nation's governors are treading gingerly on same-sex "marriage," but several in both parties say it will be impossible to duck the issue in this election year (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Gay marriage row grips US society | San Francisco's sanctioning of same-sex marriage has opened a Pandora's Box of social and legal issues that is as divisive and toughly fought across the United States as abortion rights (AFP)
  
  
• Test of an issue | The race to succeed Jacques seen key in gay marriage debate (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• With Albany mum on same-sex marriage, New York gay advocates look to courts | Advocates of gay marriage say courts are have a more effective means for changing the state's laws (The New York Times)
  
  
• Wed the people? (In order to form a more perfect gay union) | The dispute over marriage is as purely semantic as they come, particularly in a society as obsessed with words as ours is (The New York Times)
  
  
• Gay community debates gay marriage | Some say issue is monogamy, not marriage (Talk of the Nation, NPR)
  
  

Opinion:

• Is gay sexuality going back in the closet? | There is a growing sense among progressive gay thinkers that these provisional victories have come with a high cost. What has the gay community given up to reach this point? (Patrick Moore, Houston Chronicle)
  
  
• Marriage is for the children | It is puzzling that that so-called "family values'' folks are opposed to gay marriage. The legality of marriage protects children (Joan Ryan, San Francisco Chronicle)
  
  

next page... |  1 of 2

February (Web-only) 2004, Vol. 48