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Republicans believe the number of swing voters this year, usually around 15%, has shrunk to no more than 7%, many of them Catholics who might be receptive to an amendment. What matters most to Karl Rove, the President's chief political adviser, is another number: 4 million. That's how...
Dedicated gay-marriage opponents still doubt that Bush will do much to push the amendment in public or in private. The Traditional Values Coalition, headed by the Rev. Louis Sheldon, will send out a fund-raising mailing called Homosexual Alert Fund to half a million households this week. Sheldon and...
All the same, it's not easy to tinker with the Constitution. Only 17 amendments have been added since the 10 in the Bill of Rights were tacked on in 1791. The most recent came in 1992, when Michigan became the 38th state to ratify a measure barring Congress from...
GEORGE BUSH Running for his party's nomination in 2000, Bush opposed gay marriage but said individual states "can do what they want to." That was before "activist judges" got involved. Now the President backs a constitutional amendment that would strictly define marriage as a union between a man and...
JOHN KERRY Kerry opposes gay marriage but supports civil unions. He's against a federal amendment that would outlaw gay marriage but would support amending the Massachusetts constitution to do so, as long as it grants civil unions to gay couples and bestows on them the same legal benefits that...