{"id":1080,"date":"2004-02-05T19:47:13","date_gmt":"2004-02-06T02:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/winning-the-bigots-vote\/"},"modified":"2004-02-05T19:47:13","modified_gmt":"2004-02-06T02:47:13","slug":"winning-the-bigots-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/winning-the-bigots-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning the Bigots’ Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bush Expected to Endorse Amendment Defining Marriage<\/a> By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, NYTimes<\/p>\n

The ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ”is deeply troubling<\/b>,” Mr. Bush said. <\/p>\n

”Marriage is a sacred institution between a man and a woman,” he said. ”If activist judges insist on re-defining marriage by court order, the only alternative will be the constitutional process. We must do what is legally necessary to defend the sanctity of marriage.” …<\/p>\n

Many social conservatives, though, have been impatient with the president on the issue, pressing him to take a stand. Mr. Bush’s conservative base is especially important to him in this election year<\/b> because his political strategists say that his re-election could hinge much more on his ability to turn out the vote among conservative voters than on winning over a diminishing pool of more moderate swing voters. …<\/p>\n

White House officials have always been more concerned about religious and social conservatives at the grass-roots level.<\/b> Mr. Rove has fretted publicly on a number of occasions about Mr. Bush’s failure to motivate more evangelical Christians to vote in the 2000 election, saying millions of them stayed home that year.<\/p>\n

When Christian Extremists start appointing judges and amending the Constitution, we’re all going to Hell. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bush Expected to Endorse Amendment Defining Marriage By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, NYTimes The ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ”is deeply troubling,” Mr. Bush said. ”Marriage is a sacred institution between a man and a woman,” he said. ”If activist judges insist on re-defining marriage by court order, the only alternative will be the … Continue reading Winning the Bigots’ Vote<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}