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* The president said that the Federal Marriage Amendment does not have the votes in the Senate to pass. Moreover, it will not have those votes until courts strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, an existing law that many senators think is sufficient to block court-imposed same-sex marriage. As a report of what senators believe, Bush's comment is correct. But the senators' belief is absurd. The Supreme Court could order every state in the union to accord legal status to same-sex "marriages" without touching the key provision of the act. Or every state court in the country could follow the lead of Massachusetts. We could thus have same-sex marriage ...