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Amendment

• March 4 -- Bad for Bush to Push Marriage Amendment
Carl Hulse puts the onus on Bush and Republicans to justify their push for a marriage amendment: "Senate Republican leaders said Wednesday that they would aggressively pursue a constitutional amendment banning gay marriages despite Democratic arguments that the proposal is divisive, unnecessary and a distraction from more pressing issues." And are there really no liberals involved in the fight over gay marriage?

• March 3 -- Marriage Defenders and the Return of George Wallace, Take 2
Another day, another Times columnist conflating traditional marriage supporters with anti-black racists.

• March 2 -- Marriage Defenders and the Return of George Wallace
Frank Rich hooks gay marriage to the civil rights movement--and compares marriage defenders to Southern segregationists.

• March 2 -- Bigots and Bashers, Oh My!
The Times passes along "moderate" worries that Bush "might look like a gay basher."

• March 1 -- Uneducated Southern Fundies Against Gay Marriage?
David Kirkpatrick finds a Michigan evangelical community not particularly opposed to gay marriage. Is it because people are just more educated up North?

• February 25 -- Rejecting Bush's Marriage Proposal
A lead editorial distorts Bush's position on a gay marriage amendment: "The president's speech was a call for taking rights away from gay Americans."

• February 25 -- Married to the Conservative Label
Robin Toner's analysis of Bush's gay marriage amendment announcement mentions "conservative" 17 times and suggests a constitutional amendment may alienate centrists. Yet the Times own poll shows such an amendment has centrist appeal.