Don't get me wrong. They'll screw us again, and soon. But it's interesting to note that, as I've been saying for a week now, the Bushistas are backing off of this "moral majority rules the day" crap, ever since the election. This is the latest evidence.
From the Times-Union:
Gov. Jeb Bush said he "would not support" a campaign by Florida's Southern Baptists to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriages.Predictably, the far right is going ballistic. Pam's House Blend has been monitoring the Freeper reaction.
"My belief is it's not necessary," Bush said Monday in Jacksonville about such an amendment.
Last week in Jacksonville, more than 1,900 delegates to the annual meeting of the Florida Baptist Convention voted unanimously to lead a campaign to place a constitutional same-sex marriage ban on the 2006 ballot, either through the Legislature or through a voter petition drive.
When the incoming leader of the Republican party is mortally afraid to "admit" that he's heterosexual, it ain't a good sign for the family values brigade and their future relevance to the party. There's a reason you've got open gays working in the highest levels of the Bush campaign, the RNC, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the Bush Administration, and the Congress (hell, they even have a gay Republican congressman). The inside-the-beltway Republicans pay lip service to the religious right agenda, but in their hearts, they don't really agree with the Bible thumpers' agenda, and that's why you're seeing the ongoing waffling from the Bushistas.
