Jonathan Rauch has a nice piece in the Sunday NYT Magazine (isn't the web wonderful?) that argues that Bush, by the very arguments he used, points out why inviting gays into marriage is a good thing:
In endorsing the passage of a constitutional amendment that would restrict marriage to the union of men and women, President Bush established himself as the country's most prominent advocate of same-sex marriage. To be more precise, he established himself as the most prominent advocate of the best arguments for gay marriage, even as he roundly rejected gay marriage itself.Posted by hessma at March 6, 2004 08:06 AM