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Laura Bush: Gay marriages 'very, very shocking issue' for some
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| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision Sep 11, 2008 01:41pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - USA Today |
| News Date | Wednesday, February 18, 2004 07:40:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Laura Bush says gay marriages are "a very, very shocking issue" for some people, a subject that should be debated by Americans rather than settled by a Massachusetts court or the mayor of San Francisco.
Asked how she feels about the issue personally, Mrs. Bush replies: "Let's just leave it at that."
In an Associated Press interview, Mrs. Bush also endorsed sexual abstinence programs for teens, which are slated to get double their current funding under the president's latest budget proposal.
Abstinence should be extensively discussed alongside contraception, she said. "We know it works. It's 100% fail-safe."
Mrs. Bush discussed her views as she flew across the country at the start of a three-day trip to raise re-election cash for her husband's campaign and to talk about education.
The trip took her to California where gay couples have been lining up to get marriage licenses in San Francisco. On the East Coast, Massachusetts' highest court recently ruled that the state constitution permits gay marriages.
At the White House on Wednesday, President Bush said, "I'm troubled by what I've seen" in Boston and San Francisco. But he declined to say if he would support a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriages, as conservative supporters expect him to do.
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