From Digby / Hullabaloo:
Bush said: "After more than two centuries of American jurisprudence and millennia of human experience, a few judges and local authorities are presuming to change the most fundamental institution of civilization."
And here's a blogger who favors restoring marriage "to its traditional meaning -- abduction of a woman and seizure of her family's property".
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2003_08_03_digbysblog_archive.html#106010901685734946http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2004_02_22_digbysblog_archive.html#107765949155502009"I believe marriage should be defined as a man and the woman (or women) he abducts from an enemy tribe."
"And, as so clearly demonstrated by recent history, allowing the races to intermarry is tantamount to sanctifying bestiality. (Conservatives knew, then as now, that man is always teetering on the edge of mad dog-love and all it will take is a change in our definition of marriage to push him over.)"
"... But, perhaps the most important tradition to many in the conservative movement will be the return of the tradition of
droigt de seigneur. In the modern world this would be interpreted as the right of the CEO, landlord or male politician to sleep with any bride on her wedding night. Surely this is one marriage “tradition” that should be revived ...."