Kansas senator leads push for gay marriage ban

[davidinalameda]

http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid22410.asp

A conservative push to ban gay marriage through a constitutional amendment gained renewed momentum Wednesday after a Senate panel led by Kansas Republican Sam Brownback narrowly approved the measure.

The "Marriage Protection Amendment" would define marriage as a union between a man and a woman, effectively rescinding the Massachusetts law that made gay marriage legal last year. "None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly," said Brownback, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution. "The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act."

While a similar effort led by President Bush failed in both chambers of Congress last year, conservative lawmakers are pushing for another vote to head off any decision in the federal courts that could legalize gay marriage.

In a 5-4 vote along party lines, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., cast the deciding vote allowing the amendment to pass to the full Judiciary Committee and a likely vote in the Senate next year. Specter said he opposes the amendment but feels it shouldn't "be bottled up" in committee.


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[William769]

1. They just don't give up do they?

Hopefully with next year being an election year & alot of the GOP running for cover, that will play in our favor.

[Punkingal]

2. Brownback...

Another Rightwing freak who wants to be President.

[IntravenousDemilo]

3. Unless we gays start referring to it as "equal marriage" ourselves,

no one else will. Can we please stop using their terminology, and frame the debate as we want it to be framed? It's "equal marriage", not "gay marriage", because it's about equality as citizens.

[terrya]

4. I agree.

That's why I have a bit of a problem with the phrase "gay rights". It plays right into that "special rights" crap.

We deserve equal rights. And that's how it should be framed.

[IntravenousDemilo]

7. Oh, hi sweetie! n/m

[Stepup2]

5. What the hell is in the water in that state?? n/t

[IntravenousDemilo]

6. They have water there? I didn't realize that. They shouldn't have.

Whatever vile, toxic, bacteria-laden sludge grows in stagnant water is "what the hell is in the water in that state".

[Stepup2]

8. yeah but

wouldn't that be eeeevolution?

[IntravenousDemilo]

9. Evolution seems to have ignored the good burghers of Kansas.

Maybe it's appropriate that they don't believe in it, given the evidence all around them.

[Stepup2]

11. HaHa perhaps they are a weird GMO

Perhaps they explode like tribbles when presented with empirical evidence to the contrary; no need for evolution here, we multiply best when kept like mushrooms; in the dark and kept warm in a bed of shit...

[Ian David]

10. Brownback (noun): One whose back has been smeared with Santorum

Brownback(Noun):
One whose back has been smeared with Santorum.


2) One whose back is often smeared with Santorum..

3) A puddle of Santorum.that has been left on someone's backside.

Also as a verb:

To smear Santorum.on someone's backside.

See also, "Brownbacked," which means "to be or having been smeared with Santorum."