Why are they so scared...?

WASHINGTON -- President Bush said Wednesday he has government lawyers working on a law that would define marriage as a union between a woman and a man, casting aside calls to legalize gay marriages.

"I believe marriage is between a man and a woman and I believe we ought to codify that one way or the other and we have lawyers looking at the best way to do that," the president said a wide-ranging news conference at the White House Rose Garden.

Bush also urged, however, that America remain a "welcoming country" -- not polarized on the issue of homosexuality.

"I am mindful that we're all sinners and I caution those who may try to take a speck out of the neighbor's eye when they got a log in their own," the president said. "I think it is important for our society to respect each individual, to welcome those with good hearts."

"On the other hand, that does not mean that someone like me needs to compromise on the issue of marriage," he added.

When he says "someone like me," does he mean a callous, vain, holier-than-thou, devious and hypocritical charlatan?

And, for the record, in September, 1996, President Clinton signed the misleadingly-named "Defense of Marriage Act," that requires the federal government to ignore legal marriages between same-sex couples and allows states to do likewise. What Bush is talking about here is an amendment to the Constitution stipulating the same thing.

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