Pfft. Russia is the largest country... then it's Canada. And the U.S is in 4th, so it isn't exactly "puny". ;P Bah. The whole reason that the gay marriage issue is brought up by Bush, who's pushing for the amendment... is because he wants to satisfy the right-right-right wings of his party. He wants their votes for the next election, because they like how he takes a strong stand on the issue. If he didn't, the party would probably split, and in the past when it happened, the split party... usually lost. While we're on the topic of Bush, I hope he treads carefully on the subject of abortion. If he takes too strong of a stand on that, he may bring women (50% of voters) against him. Anyway. I'm pro-gay marriage. I'm very interested to see how this election will turn out. Too bad I will be missing out on voting by 4 months.