Pro-family groups said yesterday that President Bush "drove a wedge" into their efforts to protect marriage by seeming to accept homosexual civil unions, even as he said he could support an amendment defining marriage as solely between a man and woman. "We need clear leadership in a time of judicial tyranny, not politicians who don't have the spine to stand up for something as basic as marriage," said Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women for America's Culture and Family Institute.
"Let's be clear: Creating counterfeits is no way to protect marriage, no matter what you call them," he said.
Mr. Bush, in an interview with ABC News that aired Tuesday night, said, "If necessary, I will support a constitutional amendment which would honor marriage between a man and a woman, codify that."
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