The New York Times apparently reads Andrew Sullivan, and responds!

Here's the correction in today's edition:

Because of an editing error, an article last Wednesday about an ABC television interview in which President Bush discussed a constitutional amendment on same-sex marriage quoted him incompletely.

(The quotation was also incomplete in a front-page article on Sunday about a New York Times/CBS News poll showing widespread support for an amendment to ban same-sex marriage.) What the president said was, "If necessary, I will support a constitutional amendment which would honor marriage between a man and a woman, codify that." The Wednesday article, while omitting the words "if necessary" from the quotation, did specify them in a separate paragraph.

Here's what Sullivan wrote, in nominating the original presentation for "The Dowd Award."