...perhaps the election results served to check [Bush]’s use of dangerous wedge politics since he chose not to lobby for a federal constitutional amendment to ban marriage rights for same-sex couples. Even the congressional co-sponsors of the amendment announced the demise of the so-called Federal Marriage Amendment. While this is positive news, it hardly erases the last six years of legislative and policy attacks our community has suffered under this administration. We look forward to working with the new, more fair-minded Congress to repair the hurt created by ...Bush’s disastrous domestic and international policies and to restore our nation’s reputation as a society in which dignity, equality and justice are available for all.