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And this is by the way going to be a big issue in the upcoming election year. Bush and his advisors are just salivating at the idea of turning the general election into a referendum on the "institution of marriage" Particularly if his opponent is Howard Dean, who as governor of Vermont, signed the first such law in the country to legalize civil unions for gays. The Bush people will argue that Massachusetts legalizing gay marriages is some proof that the country is going to hell. They will say that we ought to cling to a highly religious, highly idealized concept of "marriage" as only being between a man and a woman, and that somehow our society will decay if we allow gay couples the right to get married. I believe Bush is going to propose a constitutional amendment to outlaw gay marriage, which the Democrats' nominee would almost certainly oppose, and try to use that as a way of trying to make the election into a cultural debate instead of a political debate. It stinks but its going to happen.
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