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Same-sex marriage Senate battle over, war is not

The Senate failed to Pass the Anti-Same-sex Ammendment.The demise of President Bush's pet project may well mark the beggining of Bush's own demise. The irrational dead end movement highlites the developing split with Republicans. Not only didn't they get the 67 votes needed to forward the Ammendment, nor did they get the 60 Votes to Keep it alive, They couldn't even get 50 percent. The vote wos 48 to 50 The missing votes were Kerry's and Edwards who continue to collect their paychecks for their no-show jobs.

The amendment, as proposed by Allard, would add these two sentences to the Constitution:

"Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution, nor the constitution of any State, 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 Republicans objected to the second sentence, saying it was so ambiguous that it also could prevent states from allowing gays and lesbians to join in civil unions.

Other senators expressed concern that the measure would usurp the states' traditional dominion over family law, and some questioned whether it was necessary.

Republican Sen. John Sununu of New Hampshire, who voted against moving the measure forward, said it was too early to make the assumption that judges might strike down laws such as the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act and 38 similar state statutes that define marriage as a union only between a man and a woman.

"Naturally, there exist concerns about what activist courts might do to undermine these rights and the Defense of Marriage Act," Sununu said in a statement. "But it is premature to amend the Constitution based upon a hypothetical scenario."

McCain went even further, calling the amendment "antithetical in every way to the core philosophy of Republicans."

Sen. John Cornyn in a speech last week "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."
All this talk about defending marriage makes one ponder just how same sex marriage poses any such threat. If it opposes ones religeous beliefs, the church doesn't have to participate. If the President wants to really give some support and protect to Marriage he should change the punitive tax, Social Security, and Medicaid Policy's. These policy's have forced married couples to get get divorced just to make ends meet. If Bush and company really cared about married Americans they would spend more energy on these money issues, but instead they focus on gaybashing.

posted by Liberty @ 10:23 PM