Vai Reuters: Bush to Seek Gay-Marriage Ban in New Term -Aide

Bush’s call for a constitutional ban on gay marriages failed last year in Congress, but his position was seen as a key factor motivating Christian conservatives concerned about “moral values” to turn out in large numbers and help supply Bush with a winning margin in last week’s election.

“If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal, and the ideal is that marriage ought to be, and should be, a union of a man and a woman,” Bush political aide Karl Rove told “Fox News Sunday.”

Rove said Bush would “absolutely” push the Republican-controlled Congress for a constitutional amendment, which he said was needed to avert the aims of “activist judges” who would permit gay marriages.

There is absolutely, positively, no way that the proposed amendment would get 2/3rds of either house of Congress. As such, this would be a foolish way for Bush to spend the political capital he was speaking of last week. This would be starting a fight one knows one can’t win, which is not smart.

We shall see. I am skeptical that it will be brought up again, to be honest (save in the rhetorical sense).