Bush said to back limit on gays

[Freddie Stubbs]

Support expected for constitutional marriage measure
By Alan Elsner, Reuters, 2/20/2004

WASHINGTON -- President Bush's political director has told a group of prominent conservatives that the president would soon publicly endorse a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

Bay Buchanan, sister of former Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, said she was one of several conservatives who heard the message from political director Karl Rove two weeks ago.

"We were told by Karl Rove that the president would support the constitutional amendment -- not just that he would endorse it but also that he would fight for it," Buchanan said.

Rove told an alliance of conservatives known as the Arlington Group in a telephone conversation that Bush would back the amendment put forward by Representative Marilyn Musgrave, Republican of Colorado, and that his statement would come "sooner rather than later."

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