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Most GOP Presidential Candidates Identify As ‘Bush Republicans’, Call For Federal Amendment Outlawing Gay Marriage | Hermain Cain and Ron Paul said that marriage should be left to the states, while Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum all called for a federal amendment outlawing same-sex marriages. Michele Bachmann — who recently pressed other states to follow Minnesota’s example and put the question on the ballot — managed to argue that she does support a constitutional amendment but “would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.” Watch it:

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