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Senate Scuttles Amendment Banning Same-Sex Marriage
The Senate voted today to block a White House-backed constitutional amendment to bar same-sex marriages, dooming its prospects for approval by Congress this year but ensuring it an emotionally-charged role during campaigns this fall.
The vote was 48-50 against bringing up the amendment -- 12 short of the 60 votes needed to limit debate and 19 short of the two-thirds majority that it would take to amend the Constitution.
A little closer than I would've liked to see, but it still puts a big old smile on my face.
The Senate voted today to block a White House-backed constitutional amendment to bar same-sex marriages, dooming its prospects for approval by Congress this year but ensuring it an emotionally-charged role during campaigns this fall.
The vote was 48-50 against bringing up the amendment -- 12 short of the 60 votes needed to limit debate and 19 short of the two-thirds majority that it would take to amend the Constitution.
A little closer than I would've liked to see, but it still puts a big old smile on my face.
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Well, remember that this was just the first step. Even _if_ they'd gotten a 2/3 majority, it still would have had to do the same in the House, and then would have to be ratified by 75% of the States' legislatures.
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I guess I just hoped for some huge landslide of a majority shooting this one down, but I will happily take what I can get.
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"The constitutional amendment we're debating today strikes me as antithetical in every way to the core philosophy of Republicans," McCain said. "It usurps from the states a fundamental authority they have always possessed and imposes a federal remedy for a problem that most states do not believe confronts them."
McCain also said the amendment "will not be adopted by Congress this year, nor next year, nor any time soon until a substantial majority of Americans are persuaded that such a consequential action is as vitally important and necessary as the proponents feel it is today."
"The founders wisely made certain that the Constitution is difficult to amend and, as a practical political matter, can't be done without overwhelming public approval. And thank God for that," he said.
(from http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/14/samesex.marriage/index.html )
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I think it was Santorum who commented that same sex marriage would lead to interspecies (man on dog) marriage, but there was one recently that brought in box turtles. I need to track that down so we can post it up against McCains as a bit of compare and contrast.
Oh, hey, here it is:
"It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle. But that does not mean it is right. . . . Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife."
-- Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), advocating a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in a speech Thursday to the Heritage Foundation.
Box turtles? As Jon Stewart would say, "Whaaaa-?"
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If there is a subcategory of that group who are into man on turtle sex I so, so don't want to know about it.