Yes, yes, yes!
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ebonlockSenate 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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one more McCain
Date: 2004-07-14 11:24 am (UTC)Re: one more McCain
Date: 2004-07-14 12:02 pm (UTC)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-?"
Re: one more McCain
Date: 2004-07-14 12:10 pm (UTC)Re: one more McCain
Date: 2004-07-14 12:25 pm (UTC)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.