Bush's Change of Heart on Gay Marriage?

I picked this up off the news wire this morning. It was a comment made by President Bush concerning the push for a U.S. constitutional amendment banning gay couples from marriage.

In the interview, the President said he probably would not lobby for passage of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage (source). After that comment, White House spokesman Scott McClellan telephoned the Post yesterday Saturday to say the president wanted to clarify his position. McClellan said Bush was “willing to spend political capital” but believes it will be virtually impossible to overcome Senate resistance until the courts render a verdict on the Defense of Marriage Act that attempts to block gay marriage by federal statute rather than a constitutional amendment.

And here I thought that Bush had no respect for the courts. When something doesn't go his way with the courts, he points a finger at them and accuses them of consisting of “activist judges&ldquo, except of course when judges ruled that he had won the election in Florida when he won his first term.

Maybe, just maybe, he will get lost in all the crap he's stirred up in Iraq and not have time for us. And maybe, by the time he gets around to bashing us again, someone else will be in his office?

We can hope.