A RULING WITH RESONANCE: Washington Post on political fallout from MA court

By refusing to accept a Vermont-style "civil union" compromise in the fight over same-sex marriage, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has virtually guaranteed that the issue will be a wedge in this year's political campaigns.

Washington political veterans generally believe this could be a plus for President Bush, whose homespun philosophy that "marriage is between a man and a woman" manages to please his conservative base voters even as it reflects the opinion of a majority of Americans. ...

Just how tricky the issue may be can be seen in the nuanced rumba Bush and his leading Democratic challengers have performed around the explosive subject for the past year. Bush has denounced same-sex marriage while resisting demands from some conservatives that he push aggressively for a constitutional ban. ...

His challengers have, in most cases, extolled equal protection as a principle while stopping short of actual marriage rights.

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