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To: JohnM who wrote (3008)	7/1/2003 9:24:42 PM
From: LindyBill	of 793900

W aides would love gay-marriage ban By THOMAS M. DeFRANK DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF WASHINGTON - President Bush's political advisers believe a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a potent political plus for Bush's reelection - even though the odds of it ever happening are virtually zero. Bush political sources told the Daily News yesterday that the amendment - floated on Sunday by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) - reassures the President's conservative base while appealing to independents who support traditional values. "It's a pretty popular position for average people out there," a top Bush political adviser said. "The majority of Americans would say you shouldn't discriminate against homosexuals - but that doesn't mean you change the rules that our society traditionally operates by." A second adviser said the amendment, which requires a two-thirds vote of Congress and ratification by three-quarters of the state legislatures to be added to the Constitution, "polls very high" in private White House surveys. Even so, "it's probably less serious than the flag-burning amendment" that Bush has already endorsed, he added. Nevertheless, the idea gives the GOP a chance to comfort pro-family groups, some of which are annoyed because Bush didn't condemn last week's Supreme Court decision endorsing some private homosexual acts. Frist's office, the White House and the Bush-Cheney campaign had no immediate comment. nydailynews.com

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