GOP to make gay marriage a 2004 campaign issue [View All]

(I apologize if this is a dupe, but search didn't turn up anything)


Kyl panel maps tactic to ban gay marriages

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0801kyl-gaymarriage01.html

WASHINGTON - While President Bush and other Republicans press their opposition to same-sex marriages onto the national agenda as a potential 2004 campaign issue, a little-noticed "policy paper" this week from a Senate committee headed by Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl lays out what some see as a road map for the GOP strategy.

Titled "The Threat to Marriage from the Courts," the Senate Republican Policy Committee paper asserts that a constitutional amendment banning such marriages is the way to counter a "willingness" of law school professors, the legal profession, judges and even the Supreme Court to take "pro-same-sex marriage positions."

With a "same-sex marriage" ruling imminent in Massachusetts and court cases pending in Arizona, New Jersey and Indiana, the paper says, "These lawsuits will continue until Congress and the states adopt a constitutional amendment to protect traditional marriage."

"I believe that it is a road map for a Republican Party to make the issue of gay marriage into a divisive campaign issue," said Matt Foreman, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force executive director, after reviewing the document.

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Why does this not surprise me?