For Better Or For Worse?

As more gays say I do, Bush calls for a constitutional ban. But will the issue really change any voter's mind come November?

Two weeks after it started, the parade of gay newlyweds in San Francisco, now more than 3,400 couples and counting, just keeps on coming. So many said "I do" in city hall last week that the marriage of Rosie O'Donnell to her longtime partner Kelli Carpenter became just one more nuptial, though maybe the one that attracted the most photographers. The city's Gay Men's Chorus all but went hoarse singing The Star-Spangled Banner and Chapel of Love to an endless line of couples, with assorted children and parents and friends cheering them on. "When you have the opportunity to watch and...

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