Sharpton: Bush exploited religious feelings against gay marriage. “I think George Bush manipulated a lot of religious feelings about marriage when the president has little or nothing to do with marriage. It was the place for a debate on Iraq, he’s in charge of the military; health care, he’s in charge of that; on Social Security, he’s in charge of that. But we should not relinquish the morality of the church to the office of president. He has nothing to do with that.”