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Posted by parhad (Guest) - Wednesday, July 14 2004, 17:37:27 (CEST)
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...this is an article about gay marriage and protecting hetero marriage...but itªs really about the strategy these people use to get into power and stay there...youªd be hard pressed, if you spoke with female AND male interns in Congress to conclude that these people held marriage sacred...Fucking...not THATªs sacred...but how many politicians want to sleep with their own wives when they can screw you AND yours instead?



GOP Vows to Push Gay-Marriage Amendment

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By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent

WASHINGTON - Bracing for defeat on one of President Bush (news - web sites)'s campaign-season priorities, Republicans vow that not even a Senate setback will halt their drive to enact a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.


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"I don't think it's going away after this vote," Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said Tuesday on the eve of a test vote. "I think the issue will remain alive," he added, virtually conceding the amendment would fall short of the 60 votes needed to advance.


Whatever its future in Congress, there were signs that supporters of the amendment intended to use it in the campaign already unfolding.


"The institution of marriage is under fire from extremist groups in Washington, politicians, even judges who have made it clear that they are willing to run over any state law defining marriage," Republican senatorial candidate John Thune says in a radio commercial airing in South Dakota. "They have done it in Massachusetts and they can do it here," adds Thune, who is challenging Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle for his seat.

...no one is shooting anything down...all theyªre saying is we want it too. You keep youra and let us have ours...talk about a non=issue.


"Thune's ad suggests that some are using this amendment more to protect the Republican majority than to protect marriage," said Dan Pfeiffer, a spokesman for Daschle's campaign.


Senate Democrats advanced a similar argument, saying politics prompted Bush and fellow Republicans to advance the issue to the top of the legislative agenda.


Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Republicans were trying to "change the subject" of the election away from the war in Iraq (news - web sites) and the economy.


"Gay bashing, plain and simple," charged Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J.


Republicans protested, sometimes vociferously.


"If you support ... a mother and a father for every child, you are a hater. If you believe that men and women for 5,000 years have bonded together in marriage, you're a gay-basher. Marriage is hate. Marriage is a stain. Marriage is an evil thing. That's what we hear," said Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa.

...got that right..no matter what you tell these people they HEAR what they need to.


At issue is an amendment providing that marriage within the United States "shall consist only of a man and a woman."

...really important stuff..the freedom of the universe depends on tis one....this is how they get into office and rip us all off, which is their real aim..they pick emotional issues like this confident that the same people who think Queers are attacking marriage, by wanting to get married...think the economy will do better now that the melting ice caps will provide new real estate opportunities.

...Had Queers said they wanted all marriage ended...that might be an attack...but they want marriage EXTENDED...


A second sentence says that neither the federal nor any state constitution "shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a man and a woman." Some critics argue that the effect of that provision would be to ban civil unions, and its inclusion in the amendment complicated efforts by GOP leaders to gain support from wavering Republicans.

...all Repubs waver in steely determination...Dems flap in the breeze.


Bush urged the Republican-controlled Congress last February to approve a constitutional amendment, saying it was needed to stop judges from changing the definition of the "most enduring human institution."

...he ought to know..a man who put incompetant judges on the bench so theyªd change our enduring Constitution which was intended to stand in the way of just such a Troglodyte.


The odds have never favored passage in the current Congress, in part because many Democrats oppose it, but also because numerous conservatives are hesitant to overrule state prerogatives on the issue.

hehehehehehe


At the same time, Republican strategists contend the issue could present a difficult political choice to Democrats, who could be pulled in one direction by polls showing that a majority of voters oppose gay marriage, and pulled in the other by homosexual voters and social liberals who support it. An Associated Press-Ipsos poll taken in March showed about four in 10 support a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, and half oppose it.

...the field of honor is more often made of JELLo...


While they held out little hope the measure could gain the 60 votes needed to advance, Senate Republicans worked to produce a majority. Even that seemed in doubt, although their chances improved when an aide to Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) said he and vice presidential running mate John Edwards (news - web sites) did not intend to return to the Capitol for what amounted to a procedural vote. Both men oppose the amendment.

...I can see the headline...KERRY ATTACKS MARRIAGE


The Senate moved toward a showdown as House Republicans focused on legislation rather than an amendment to the constitution.

...we need an attack by Queer married Arabs to get us galvanized on this.





The House Judiciary Committee (news - web sites) scheduled a meeting during the day on a measure to strip federal courts of jurisdiction over a portion of a 1996 federal law that defined marriage as the union between a man and a woman. The full House may consider the legislation next week.

..it isnªt marriage theyªre protecting...they want to change the judiciary so they can put more of us to sleep...permanently.

Other bills have been under consideration, although officials said it was unclear whether they would seek a vote on one of them, a proposal to prevent the city government in Washington from formally recognizing same-sex marriages performed in any of the 50 states.

Additionally, GOP aides said the leadership might schedule a vote on the House floor on a constitutional amendment closer to the elections.



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