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Bush Takes Responsibility for Iraq-Niger Claims, announces marriage meddling

This "defining marriage" business pisses me off. I checked my dictionary again, and as I expected, marriage is already defined, just like it was 7 years ago when I first wrote about this issue.

Of course, it wasn't an entirely fair test, because I looked in the same dictionary then as I did now. I'm a little scared to look in a newer one, lest I find that there really is no definition of marriage anymore -- thus requiring that the president and Congress get involved in the job of defining it (or, insanely laughably, put the definition in the Constitution).

Bush Takes Responsibility for Iraq Claims
President Touches on War, Gay Marriage, Economy in Wide-Ranging News Conference
By Mike Allen
The Washington Post
Wednesday 30 July 2003

President Bush took personal responsibility today for including flawed intelligence about Saddam Hussein in his State of the Union address after letting others take the blame for three weeks. But he said history will vindicate the war in Iraq, even though no unconventional weapons have been found.

Bush said administration lawyers are drafting a law that would define marriage as a union between a man and a woman, stopping short of endorsing the constitutional ban on gay marriage that is being championed by some Republican leaders following a Supreme Court ruling that effectively decriminalized sodomy.

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