No hopping around gay marriage issue

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http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~21662~1942799,00.html

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"Gay marriage" is the great taboo of the current election cycle -- the topic the candidates address reluctantly, and then only circuitously at that.

The issue is a political loser, no matter which side the politician takes. Defend the sanctity of the institution that's served as the foundation of the family and society for millennia, and you're branded a bigot. Jump aboard the gay-marriage freight train, and you risk alienating the vast majority of Americans who hold more traditional views.

President George W. Bush tiptoed around the issue in his State of the Union Address. Although reaffirming his belief that marriage is "a union of a man and a woman," he declined to launch a campaign to amend the Constitution to ensure that it legally remains so. His message, although guarded, was hard to miss: This is a fight he has no intention of joining, unless dragged in kicking and screaming.

Ditto for John Kerry.

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1. this topic just irks me

the marriage issue for repukes is just some way for them to round up a group of people and deny them their human rights as full, participating citizens. and then turn the frenzy into votes.
gay folk will turn this into a dog fight -- if falwell and crew don't think we can't turn up the heat they have another thing coming.