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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JBTFD who wrote (685333)	6/10/2005 10:49:00 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

alec baldwin was leaving the country if Bush elected madonna said Bush and saddam were a lot alike sean penn had a couple of photo ops with children in iraq but didn't leave anything behind...unlike a good liberal like Gary Sinise...http://www.operationiraqichildren.org/ would you like some links?

To: JBTFD who wrote (685333)	6/11/2005 9:49:55 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

You don't get out much, do you....?

To: JBTFD who wrote (685333)	6/16/2005 12:07:28 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Romney to Back Plan to Ban Gay Marriage By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 11:54 a.m. ET BOSTON (AP) -- Gov. Mitt Romney said Thursday he will support a proposed constitutional amendment banning both same-sex marriages and civil unions in Massachusetts, the only state where gay marriage is now legal. The proposed amendment, which was announced Thursday by opponents of gay marriage, will take the form of a citizen's initiative. That means the state attorney general's office must sign off on the proposal's language, supporters must collect enough signatures and one-quarter of lawmakers in the Legislature must vote to approve it. If it passes those hurdles, it could appear on the statewide ballot for a vote as soon as November 2008. ''Governor Romney believes that voters should be given a straightforward amendment to decide the definition of marriage and not one that muddies the water by creating civil unions that would be equivalent of marriage in all respects but name,'' said Romney's spokesman, Eric Fehrnstrom. Boston Archbishop Sean O'Malley and the bishops of the state's other three Roman Catholic dioceses pledged support for signature-gathering efforts. ''We encourage all Catholics to exercise their civil right to participate in the signature drive for the new initiative petition,'' they said in a statement. The initiative is separate from a proposed amendment now pending before the Legislature that would ban gay marriages but legalize Vermont-style civil unions. That amendment, which already has passed the Legislature once, must pass by majority vote in identical form again this year in order to appear on a state ballot in November 2006. Romney had supported that earlier amendment as well, but he said at the time the only reason he did so was because it would ban gay marriage. ''If the question is, 'Do you support gay marriage or civil unions?' I'd say neither,'' Romney said last year. ''If they said you have to have one or the other, that Massachusetts is going to have one or the other, then I'd rather have civil unions than gay marriage. But I'd rather have neither.'' Massachusetts' highest court ruled in November 2003 that the state constitution guaranteed same-sex couples the right to marry. The nation's first state-sanctioned, same-sex weddings began taking place May 17, 2004, and since then, thousands of couples have tied the knot.