“If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal, and the ideal is that marriage ought to be, and should be, a union of a man and a woman.”

— Karl Rove, in a statement aired today on Fox News Sunday. Mr. Rove, as Senior Advisor to President Bush, is largely responsible for President Bush’s rise to the White House and for engineering many of the president’s policies.

As a testament to Karl Rove’s disconcerting grip on both President Bush’s ear and on American policy, John DiIulio, former director of the White House Office of Community and Faith-Based Initiatives, stated: “Karl is enormously powerful, maybe the single most person in the modern, post-Hoover era ever to occupy a political-adviser post near the Oval Office.”

Mimi Hanaoka