(2004-02-24) — President George W. Bush this morning made a long-awaited statement backing a constitutional amendment narrowly defining “mayor” as “a political relationship between one elected official and one specific city.”
The president said the amendment was needed to “prevent the meaning of mayor from being changed forever.”
His action came in response to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who Mr. Bush believes has overstepped his legal authority by authorizing thousands of “marriage” licenses to homosexual couples, in violation of state and federal law.
Earlier today, Mr. Bush also called for an amendment defining ‘marriage’ as a monogamous heterosexual relationship. But within hours a Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel issued a “pre-emptive ruling” overturning proposed Constitutional amendments XXVIII and XXIX on the grounds that they would have been “approved by ignorant legislators and voters, rather than progressive federal jurists.”
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1 Note-It Posts // Feb 24, 2004 at 1:25 pm
What’s in a name?
Scott Ott is at it again: President George W. Bush this morning made a long-awaited statement backing a constitutional amendment narrowly defining “mayor” as “a political relationship between one elected official and one specific city.” “…except in t…
2 Dust in the Light // Feb 26, 2004 at 5:35 pm
The Gay Marriage Debate in Satire
Scott Ott had two satires reacting from the President’s announcement of support for a marriage amendment that I didn’t get around to linking to. “Bush Backs Amendment Defining ‘Mayor’” brought to mind Gabriel Rosenberg’s comment to a recent post, here,…