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Second opinions.


CHRIS WALLACE: What do you think of the constitutional amendment [to ban same-sex marriage Noun 1. same-sex marriage - two people of the same sex who live together as a family; "the legal status of same-sex marriages has been hotly debated"
couple, twosome, duet, duo - a pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable
] and the idea of using it as a campaign tool?

LAURA Laura, subject of the love poems of Petrarch. She is thought to be Laura de Noves (1308?–1348), wife of Hugo de Sade, but this has not been proved.

Laura

Petrarch’s perpetual, unattainable love. [Ital. Lit.
 BUSH: Well, I don't think it should be used as a campaign tool, obviously But I do think it's something that people in the United States want to debate. And it requires a lot of sensitivity to talk about the issue, a lot of sensitivity.

--An exchange on Fox News Sunday Fox News Sunday is a public affairs magazine on Fox, airing on Sunday mornings. The show, which began in 1996, is hosted by Chris Wallace. The show, which predates the launch of Fox News Channel, usually talks about items similar to Sunday-morning interview shows. , May 14

"I had serious reservations about whether or not I could continue working for a candidate who wanted to write discrimination into the Constitution.... [But] given that we live in this world where terrorists would love to attack us, I didn't have the luxury of being a single-issue voter on same-sex marriage."

--Mary Cheney, as quoted in the May 22 issue of Time

"There's something about the sight of [actor Joseph] Gannascoli [playing a gay mobster on The Sopranos] dancing gleefully glee·ful  
adj.
Full of jubilant delight; joyful.



gleeful·ly adv.

glee
 in a biker's cap in a leather bar ... and falling in love with the handsome mustached cook from the [local] diner--'Johnny Cakes'--that [has] given TV viewers that rare feeling that they are watching something new. In the hyper-masculine world of organized crime, with its intricately nuanced male taboos ... Sopranos creator David Chase has introduced a character whose outsized out·size  
n.
1. An unusual size, especially a very large size.

2. A garment of unusual size.

adj. also out·sized
Unusually large, weighty, or extensive.

Adj. 1.
 vulnerability will surely force a defining choice for the gentler, back-from-a-coma Tony Soprano."

--Sara Vilkomerson, writing in The New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 Observer, May 22
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Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Date:Jun 20, 2006
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