With members of the powerful Bush family, the McCain family, the Cheney   
   family, and other American political families and celebrities supporting gay   
   and lesbian "marriage", is it really any wonder that the nation is becoming   
   rotten and perverted to the core? I can imagine a day when God-fearing,   
   Bible-believing Christians may beg the Lord to take us out of this corrupt,   
   sinful world, because it is growing more sick and perverted by the year!   
   This is the blind [leaders] leading the blind, and Jesus said that both   
   would fall into the ditch!   
      
   Bush's Daughter, in a Break, Endorses Gay Marriage   
      
   By MICHAEL BARBARO - NYT   
      
   January 31, 2011   
      
      
   The Bush dynasty is no stranger to generational conflict: father and son   
   differed over deposing Saddam Hussein, raising taxes and the role of the   
   United Nations.   
      
   Now it is father and daughter who find themselves at odds over a weighty   
   issue.   
      
   Barbara Bush, one of the twin daughters of George W. Bush, will endorse   
   same-sex marriage on Tuesday, publicly breaking ranks with a father who, as   
   president, pushed for a constitutional amendment banning such unions.   
      
   Ms. Bush, 29, has taped a video calling on New York to legalize gay   
   marriage. A bill to do that was defeated in the state in 2009. She describes   
   the issue as a matter of conscience and equality.   
      
   "I am Barbara Bush, and I am a New Yorker for marriage equality," she says   
   in the brief message, sponsored by an advocacy group. "New York is about   
   fairness and equality. And everyone should have the right to marry the   
   person that they love."   
      
   The video ends with Ms. Bush, who lives in Manhattan, imploring the state's   
   residents to "join us."   
      
   Ms. Bush is the latest child of a prominent Republican leader to embrace   
   same-sex marriage, long considered anathema to the conservative movement.   
   Gay rights advocates have been quick to seize on the generational split as   
   evidence that the acceptance of same-sex marriage is blind to party   
   affiliation and family values.   
      
   Meghan McCain, the daughter of John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential   
   nominee, has become an outspoken supporter of same-sex marriage, despite her   
   father's opposition to it. And Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of Vice   
   President Dick Cheney, has forcefully backed it as well -- and is widely   
   credited with helping to persuade her father to do the same.   
      
   In the case of Mr. McCain, Mr. Cheney and Mr. Bush, it is not just their   
   children who have supported it. So, to varying degrees, have their wives.   
   Laura Bush, in a television interview in May, said, "When couples are   
   committed to each other and love each other" they should have "the same sort   
   of rights that everyone has."   
      
   Ms. McCain, a blogger and author, has said it is unhealthy for members of   
   political families to paper over disagreements on issues of social justice   
   merely to project an image of harmony. "Wives and children should be able to   
   speak their piece," she said in a television interview last year. "I think   
   it shows healthy dynamics within a family. We shouldn't all think one way,   
   and think one thing."   
      
   Barbara Bush, who started a nonprofit group focused on global health, rarely   
   speaks out on American political issues, making her foray into the same-sex   
   marriage debate so striking. But for years, those close to her say, she has   
   surrounded herself with gay friends -- at Yale, where she was an   
   undergraduate, and in New York City, where she worked in the design world.   
      
   C. Brian Smith, a friend from college who is gay, recalled that the Yale Ms.   
   Bush inhabited was filled with openly gay students and unbothered by   
   questions about sexuality. "She had that mind-set," he said. "She was loved   
   by the gay community at Yale."   
      
   Members of the Bush family seemed uneager to discuss her entry into the   
   marriage debate. Ms. Bush declined an interview request. A spokesman for Mr.   
   Bush said he had no comment. Her sister, Jenna Bush Hager, a correspondent   
   for "Today," has not publicly discussed the topic.   
      
   The Human Rights Campaign, a national gay rights group that made the video,   
   plans to show it Saturday at an annual gala in New York City. Advocates said   
   it would show elected officials and voters that, in many cases, young people   
   are not following in their parents' ideological footsteps.   
      
   "No matter what party they belong to, young Americans believe in basic   
   fairness and equality," said Brian Ellner, who is overseeing the Human   
   Rights Campaign's bid to legalize same-sex marriage in New York.   
      
      
      
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