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Bush Criticizes Gay Marriage Ruling
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| Last Edited | Ced Nov 18, 2003 06:40pm |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News: Iran |
| News Date | Tuesday, November 18, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | President Bush criticized Tuesday's ruling by Massachusetts' highest court striking down the state's ban on same-sex marriage and said he would work with Congress to "defend the sanctity of marriage."
"Marriage is a sacred institution between a man and a woman," Bush said in a statement released shortly after he arrived in London for a state visit. He said the ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court "violates this important principle."
......."I will work with congressional leaders and others to do what is legally necessary to defend the sanctity of marriage," he said.
Now for Congressional Leadership Reaction:
"When you have a runaway judiciary, as we obviously have, that has no consideration for the Constitution of the United States, then we have available to us through that Constitution (a way) to fix the judiciary," said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas.
"I think when we last publicly were discussing this, we made it very clear that it is our obligation, it is the law of the land passed by this body, and if the courts begin to tear that down, we have a responsibility to address it," he (Frist) said. |
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