Governor Thompson, he made it a point to strike this anti-gay language from the draft platform, and he obviously did that with the full knowledge of the Bush campaign.
Gov. Bush believes and supports the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy, which means gay people can be in the military, they just can't be open about their sexuality. It's clear that Governor Bush is disappointed with the way some of the platform votes went.
Looking around the room, I saw the leaders of the pro-life movement on the platform committee. The leaders of the pro-life groups are very conservative -- and they are very conservative on gay issues, too.
Bush gets it. He's open to gays and lesbians, and his vision is the most important thing. We are not electing the platform to be our next president. George W. Bush is going to be the one making the decisions, and implementing what he believes.
Basically, it said, 'we support non-discrimination, and equality for all' -- except for gay people.
I don't think this will be considered controversial.
We hope to defeat it in the House and send it back to conference.
There is an effort to reduce the Medicaid cuts to the beneficiaries.
The extreme right wing won, once again. That is only one part of the party, but they control the party.
