The piper asks to be paid:

Backers of Gay Marriage Ban Use Social Security as Cudgel

A coalition of major conservative Christian groups is threatening to withhold support for President Bush's plans to remake Social Security unless Mr. Bush vigorously champions a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage....

The members of the coalition ... are some of Mr. Bush's most influential conservative Christian supporters, and include Dr. James C. Dobson of Focus on the Family, the Family Research Council, the Southern Baptist Convention, the American Family Association, Jerry Falwell and Paul Weyrich....

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, ... said, "The enthusiasm to get behind his proposals is going to require that he get behind the issues that really motivated social conservative voters." ...

Goodness me. Don't these people understand? Conservative government exists to line the pockets of the well-to-do. All those social issues are just a way to separate rubes from their money and votes in an election year. You don't actually try to do any of the stuff you talk about to those people -- if you actually did ban gay marriage or overturn Roe, how would you get donations from the yokels the next time around?