PRESIDENT COURTS BLACKS WITH PLANS FOR SECOND TERM: From the Washington Post

...The issue of Bush's support for a constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriage was raised by several participants at yesterday's meeting, but Bush demurred, explaining that the issue is a non-starter in Congress -- at least for now. "He was noncommittal on it because he's got other priorities," Woodson said.

Bush was more interested in talking about his ideas for moving society toward greater independence and less reliance on government. "His whole notion of an ownership society and African Americans owning homes and businesses was very much on his mind," said Michelle D. Bernard, a senior vice president at the Independent Women's Forum, a conservative research group.

Among others who attended the meeting were the Rev. Joe Watkins of Philadelphia's Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church; the Rev. Eugene Rivers of the TenPoint Coalition in Boston -- one of the leading proponents of Bush's faith-based initiative; Deborah Wright, chief executive officer of New York's Carver Federal Savings Bank; and John Bryant, chief executive officer of Operation HOPE, a Los Angeles-based group that teaches financial literacy.

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