HUNTSVILLE , AL – Deep in the heart of the Bible Belt good God-fearing people expect to be applauded for supporting for President Bush, but Anna Joe Bryant heard no applause when she went to get her marriage license while openly wearing a sign of her love for the President.

Anna Joe arrived at the courthouse having just left a Republican fundraiser at the local all-white country club and she was still flushed with excitement from having her picture taken with  a life-sized cardboard cutout of former Alabama Gov. George Wallace posed next to President Bush.

Waiting while the clerk reviewed her license application, Anna Joe ran her fingers over the pin she had just gotten at the fundraiser.  "I Love Bush!" the pin proclaimed from its special perch on Anna Joe's blouse just above her heart.

"Oh do you now?" the overweight clerk challenged, pointing at Anna Joe's pin and muttering something about Satan.

"I do, I really do," Anna Joe smiled, oblivious to the clerk's muttered remark. "I'm a huge Bush lover.  I read every magazine I can find about Bush," she boasted, "and I watch Bush on television every chance I get!"

The clerk frowned, eyeing Anna Joe's short hair and Birkenstocks.

"No license for you," the clerk barked abruptly while pushing the pink, triangular homosexual alarm button hidden beneath her desk.  "If heathens like you could get married, our American way of life would be ruined forever.  The President said so himself."

"But . . . ." Anna Joe's attempt to protest was cut short by a blow from the Sheriff's nightstick.

"I hope you like Hell," the clerk added, rushing off to the vending machine for a snack before returning to watch the rest of the beating.

Regaining consciousness hours later in the hospital, Anna Joe said she still planned to vote Republican, but that she was rethinking her decision to put that "Four More Years of Bush" bumper sticker on her SUV.