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Bush Radio Address: Protect Marriage genre: Gaylingual & Polispeak

President Bush used his Saturday morning radio address to further promote his support for an amendment to prohibit gay marriage. Read the full article here. See Thought Theater's prior posting on the Bush strategy here.

"Ages of experience have taught us that the commitment of a husband and a wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society," Bush said in his Saturday radio address. "Marriage cannot be cut off from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening this good influence on society."

The following is my favorite comment from the administration. Do they really think we are so stupid as to believe that they had no influence in deciding that there should be a vote on Monday...yea...Bill Frist is nobodies puppet...right!

The White House said Bush did not devote his radio address to the issue or decide to host a presidential event Monday to again endorse the amendment because it is politically expedient, but because there's a vote on it scheduled next week in the Senate.

"On Monday, I will meet with a coalition of community leaders, constitutional scholars, family and civic organizations and religious leaders," Bush said in urging Congress to pass the amendment and send it to the states for ratification. "They're Republicans, Democrats and independents who've come together to support this amendment."

In his radio address, Bush struck back at judges who have overturned state laws similar in intent to the proposed legislation.

"Unfortunately, activist judges and some local officials have made an aggressive attempt to redefine marriage in recent years," the president said.

As I've previously commented, the rhetoric from the administration about activist judges is intended to remind the religious right that they must get out and vote in November or risk the opportunity to shift the Supreme Court sufficiently right to uphold their agenda.