STATE OF GAY UNIONS: Washington Post editorial

...Even in an election year, it shouldn't be asking too much to expect the president to firmly reject a step as radical as rewriting the Constitution to stop states from adopting laws that recognize gay relationships.

Mr. Bush's pandering is particularly upsetting because the reality in the states is not as he portrays it: a picture of liberal judges itching to overturn centuries of settled understanding of the meaning of marriage. So far, anyway, in exactly one state -- Massachusetts -- have judges ruled that gays and lesbians have a right to marry under state law. ...

Even in Massachusetts, the public is hardly powerless, since it ultimately has the power to amend the state constitution and overturn the high court's decision. Realistically, what Mr. Bush calls the "sanctity of marriage" -- that is, heterosexual marriage's monopoly on state recognition -- is only threatened to the extent that democratic polities in each state consent to expand their vision of it.

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