Conservative Groups Furious With Bush Over Gay Marriage Issue

If there’s a silver lining to the results of the last presidential election, this is it.

A coalition of Christian groups is threatening to withhold support for President Bush's plans to remake Social Security unless the president immediately champions a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, reports The New York Times.

The anti-gay groups, calling themselves the Arlington Group, claim they voted for Bush in the last election based on the gay marriage ban issue, and are furious he has not yet followed through on his campaign promise.

The members of the coalition are among the nation’s most ardent anti-gay rights organization in the country and some of the president’s biggest supporters, including Dr. James C. Dobson of Focus on the Family, the Family Research Council, the Southern Baptist Convention, the American Family Association, Jerry Falwell and Paul Weyrich. According to the Times, in a confidential letter to Karl Rove, Bush’s top political adviser and some say the architect of the president’s anti-gay marriage strategy, the coalition said they are growing increasingly impatient with the White House's decision to put Social Security and other economic issues ahead of its paramount interest: to stop gay marriage. (source)