Yes, yes, yes!

[ebonlock]

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.

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Re: one more McCain

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

"What evidence do we have that states are incapable of further exercising an authority they have exercised successfully for over 200 years?" McCain said. "We will have to wait a little longer to see if Armageddon has arrived."

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

[windrose.livejournal.com]

I'm sure the Furries of the world would have something to say about that....

Re: one more McCain

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I'm sure the Furries of the world would have something to say about that....

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.