On December 18th, Bush said, “If necessary, I will support a constitutional amendment which would honor marriage between a man and a woman, codify that, and will - the position of this administration is that whatever legal arrangements people want to make, they're allowed to make, so long as it's embraced...at the state level. Let me tell you, the (Massachusetts) court I thought overreached its bounds as a court...” Bush is under pressure nationwide from the religious right and same-sex marriage advocates, so that his position will be clear during the 2004 election campaign. Canadians began to celebrate gay marriage in 2003.
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has called for civil disobedience in response to the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment.