DEMOCRATS DIVIDED ON SSM: From the Boston Globe

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National Democrats planning to launch their presidential nominee from the home state of the historic gay marriage decision either want to recast the issue as one of basic civil rights or to ignore gay marriage entirely during next summer's convention.

In interviews this week, top Democrats were struggling with how to handle the gay marriage decision at next year's convention, with the party's chairman saying he would like to avoid what he called ''wedge issues'' and to remain focused on the Democrats' traditional message of the economy, jobs, and health care.

''This convention will not be about those issues. It's not going to happen,'' Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe told the Globe yesterday. ''George Bush wants us to talk about those other issues, because he can't talk about jobs, he can't talk about health care, he can't talk about education. This election is not going to be about these wedge issues that the Republicans and George Bush want us to talk about.''

That approach is far from certain, however, as some Democrats, including Convention chairman Bill Richardson, said the party should recast the gay marriage debate as one of basic civil rights, to draw a sharp contrast with Republicans.

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