Wayne Besen - Weekly Columns  Tuesday, May 30, 2006  by Wayne
Besen  (Weekly Column)  The Bush administration is out of gas
and nobody can afford it, so the President is priming the pump
with the same anti-gay fuel that always runs the GOP's engine:
Same-sex marriage. But will the parlor trick work again for an
administration clunking by on fumes?  According to the
conservative magazine, The Weekly Standard, Bush will hold a
press conference in the Rose Garden on June 5 to reaffirm his
support for a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting gay people
from marrying. The following day, the Senate is scheduled to
vote on the Amendment.  Of course, this was as predictable as a
hot June day in DC. When Karl Rove was put in charge of the
GOP's sagging political fortunes in an Election year, you just
knew the gay bashing was around the corner. If it were not for
guillotining gays, Rove would likely be running school board
races in Amarillo or Lubbock.  Rove is often called a political
genius, but I have to disagree. Tru