Bush Says Republican Party Wrong To Oppose Gay Civil Unions

President Bush said in an interview this past weekend that he disagreed with the Republican Party platform opposing civil unions of same-sex couples and that the matter should be left up to the states.

Mr. Bush has previously said that states should be permitted to allow same-sex unions, even though White House officials have said he would not have endorsed such unions as governor of Texas. But Mr. Bush has never before made a point of so publicly disagreeing with his party’s official position on the issue.

In an interview on Sunday with Charles Gibson, an anchor of Good Morning America on ABC, Mr. Bush said, “I don’t think we should deny people rights to a civil union, a legal arrangement, if that’s what a state chooses to do so.” ABC, which broadcast part of the interview on Monday, is to broadcast the part about civil unions on Tuesday. (source)

It’s not that I’m smarter than anyone else in America. I’m not. But, every single time, EVERY TIME that the Federal Government or anyone in the Bush Administration talks about gay marriage, they always talk about “if that’s what a state chooses to do”.

This issue is larger than the states. It’s all nice and easy for the President to shrug it off and let the states deal with the issue of how best to turn gay Americans into second class citizens, but they conveniently never mention their roll at the Federal level in this argument.

Folks, there are over 1,000 rights afforded to marriage at the Federal level! This is never mentioned by the Bush Administration because...

I can’t make it any plainer than that.