NEWS: Senators to PRESS for gay marriage ban

[Bluebear]

WASHINGTON - Senate supporters of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage said Monday they intend to press for passage in the new Congress, brushing aside mixed signals from the White House on the issue's importance at the start of President Bush's second term.


"Who's to say whether we have enough votes or not?" said Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., noting that the new two-year Congress has just begun.

He said he expects GOP leaders to call for a vote before the 2006 elections and added, "I think it would be foolhardy to back off when we've got a good head of steam coming out of the election." The amendment fell far short of passage a year ago.

The amendment states that marriage "shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman," adding that no state would be required to give legal recognition to same-sex marriages sanctioned by any other state.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050124/ap_on_go_co/congress_gay_marriage


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Does the GOP truly have some psychotic sexual fixation?

[stopbush]

1. I hate fuckin' RW fundies. Hate em, hate em, HATE em!

Livin' life by what the tooth fairy said - or didn't say - 2,000 years ago. What absolute bullshit! Religion as a pure political tool = 2004 Rs.

Not the most progressive thoughts I've ever had, but there it is.

[Clark2008]

3. Actually, Jesus never mentions sins of the flesh

He mostly talked about loving God and one another.

All that restrictive food, sexual agenda and clothing stuff was from the Old Testament and Jesus pretty much got rid of that with the Sermon on the Mount.

[swimmernsecretsea]

2. Oh Thank Heavens! * sworn in, we're out of the gate running!

Because you know, if two men or two women marry, that means the war on terror has been lost!
I can't friggin stand it anymore.

PS: Bluebear, in all fairness, let's suggest they don't have a penis fixation due to the ban on same-sex marriages of either sex.

[Bluebear]

5. Edited. But in all fairness.....

lesbians are AOK in the GOP because lesbians are "hot" and can fulfill their secret desires to use two women at once.

[swimmernsecretsea]

9. Granted...

...and keep quiet and in the background. Dang, I swore I'd never mention that Cheney girl again. Bad Zoot, Naughty Zoot! I deserve a spanking! Yes, a spanking! We shall all have a spanking!

[Bluebear]

10. Careful, we'll get accused of having cyber

Nasty, nasty liberal posters!

[swimmernsecretsea]

11. Sorry...reflexive high school chess club behavior

Everyone in the room knew "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" by memory and could spontaneously quote passages of dialog from the movie at will. Hard habit to break.

[tridim]

4. Wouldn't it be cool if these assholes would

SHUT THE HELL UP AND JUST DO THEIR FUCKING JOBS? Government has exactly zero to do with marriage.. gay, strait or otherwise.

[joanski01]

7. I fully agree with you. And Rick the

Prick Santorum (my Senator), will be out in the forefront pushing this. Pricky will also be leading the fight for privatizing Social Security. I hate the bastard.

[BrklynLiberal]

6. How about the Dems press to make everyone's marriage other than

their first, invalid? (RETROACTIVELY to 1920)

EDIT: Oh, yes, and the punishment for infidelity..for men AND women would be surgical neutering.

[tsuki]

8. In trouble with their nominations, the war and the piratization of social

security, so let's look for a REAL ISSUE that will mobilize the troops. Can't name the blacks, hispanics or women, then who? Who? Sad that the Republican Party has become the party of hate and demonization.

[donheld]

12. As a Coloradan you now know why i claim

Barbara Boxer as my Senator. To hell with that Allard shit.

[Duncan Grant]

13. Just take a look at what they're afraid of...

And the greatest irony is that the religious bigots and sanctimonious politicians KNOW they're on the wrong side of history. They will lose. It's only a matter of time.

[swimmernsecretsea]

14. Which is why what they're doing is so pointless

Just wasted energy. There are RWingers that have acknowledged laws will be changed, and stalling isn't working anymore.
PS: Thanks for the photos. They really put the focus back where it belongs, on people who only want to express themselves as they should be able to.

[Massacure]

15. Even if they do it gets rid of a wedge issue.

It'll bite them in the ass in 2006.

[B0S0X87]

17. Exactly

And for that reason, they'll only make a half-hearted effort to pass it and whine bitterly when it fails. Then, in '06, they can say to their fundie backers: "We tried to pass it, but them durn liburals stopped us. Give us more money and we'll get it passed next session."

[Duncan Grant]

16. kick (n/t)

:kick:

[despairing optimist]

18. Does the Senate have its priorities straight, or what?

I vote for the "or what."

This issue may be payback for passing the ERA through Congress, but I doubt that 38 states would ratify the antigay amendment. It also sets a dangerous precedent for the federal government to start regulating marriage, heretofore a states' rights question. Since Repubs usually defend states' rights, there's got to be a point where they'll want to bail out of this very leaky boat they've built. It stinks to high heaven, even from their point of view--that is, if they have any rationality left in them to think this through.