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FLIP FLOP!
Obviously jealous of Senator Kerry's ability to appeal to a broad spectrum of voters by taking a broad spectrum of positions, President Bush out flip-flopped his opponent this week with a suprise reversal on the issue of gay civil unions. In essence, President Bush has denounced the Republican Party's position on the matter. Here is an excerpt from an Oct. 27 story from Agape Press:
In an interview aired by ABC on October 26, President Bush dropped a bit of a shocker on conservatives when he told Charles Gibson on "Good Morning America" that while he remains opposed to homosexual marriage and supports a constitutional amendment that would prevent courts from imposing same-sex marriage on unwilling electorates, he is not so strongly opposed to civil unions.
"I don't think we should deny people rights to a civil union, a legal arrangement, if that's what a state chooses to do," the president stated. "[S]tates ought to be able to have the right to pass ... laws that enable people to, you know, be able to have rights, like others."
As noted by UPI, that is in sharp disagreement with the Republican Party platform. In fact, ABC's Gibson followed up with: "So the Republican platform on that point, as far as you're concerned, is wrong?" To which Bush replied: "Right."
As expected, some pro-family leaders are obviously irritated at the president's apparent change of direction. Bob Knight of the Culture and Family Institute says Bush "seems to be striving for neutrality while defending marriage itself."
"Civil unions are a government endorsement of homosexuality," Knight says. "But I don't think President Bush has thought about it in that way."