Newsom also invited Bush to San Francisco and meet with the first gay couple married, elderly lesbian activists Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, to "discuss with them why they simply want the same rights, as a couple of 51 years, that my wife and I enjoy today."

P.S. for all those 'progressives' who fought against Newsom's election last fall because he was 'too conservative' and that the 'true progessives/Democrats should support the lefty Green': how you like my liberal Democratic Mayor Newsom now? Pretty cool, ain't he?