On Feb. 24, 2004, President George W. Bush announced that he supported a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, declaring it was the only way to protect the status of marriage between man and woman, which he called “the most fundamental institution of civilization.”
“The voice of the people must be heard,” Bush said in a brief White House speech that Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts called an attempt to find “a wedge issue to divide the American people.” The prospects for the constitutional amendment passing were by no means clear, because like now, it was introduced at a time when many Washington lawmakers, along with their state counterparts, had to run for re-election.
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