GOP SEES '04 ISSUE IN GAY MARRIAGE: From the Boston Globe

[Eve says: Oy, another one in the parade of such articles, as we twiddle our thumbs waiting for the MA Supreme Judicial Court decision....]

Republican strategists are planning to make gay marriage an issue in the 2004 political race if the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules that same-sex couples can legally wed in the Commonwealth, a decision as eagerly awaited in the capital as in the Bay State. The
court could make Massachusetts the first state to allow gay and lesbian marriages -- which other states eventually might have to honor,
opponents say.

Under pressure from social conservatives who want President Bush to campaign against gay marriage in 2004, GOP officials say they are studying battleground states where same-sex unions could be a wedge issue in national and state races, and they are weighing endorsement of a proposed federal constitutional amendment sanctioning only heterosexual marriage. ...

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