Senate Takes Up Anti-Gay Amendment Today

[Cannikin]

(Washington) The Senate begins debate today on the Federal Marriage Amendment with a vote expected early next week.

The measure was to come to the floor Monday, but Republican supporters, anxious to squeeze Democrats in an election year quietly moved the bill up on Thursday.

Sources in the Republican Party told 365Gay.com that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn) wanted the debate to begin before the weekend to allow churches to drum up support and have their congregations begin a massive blitz Monday on senators to support the proposal.

Also, by beginning the debate today the issue will blanket the media over the weekend and reduce the amount of air time that Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry would get. Since announcing John Edwards as his running mate earlier this week Kerry has monopolized much of the news coverage.

http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/07/070804gopAmend.htm

[lovedems]

1. Forget the terror alert we suffered through all day yesterday,

we have to "save" marriage!

What a bunch of assholes. If that doesn't tell you yesterdays terror alert press conference was a joke, I don't know what will. They don't want to save our country from another terror attack, they want to save marriage. Assholes.

Edited to add: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[asjr]

5. Bill Frist--perpetrating

hate crime on the Senate floor. I guess all men are not created equal. It seems to me it is unconstitutional to pass a hate crime to the constitution.

[porphyrian]

2. Won't This Affect Certain Republican Senators? - n/t

[David__77]

3. There will be no storm of support for this.

Their strategic moment has passed. Iraq helped save marriage rights, in fact, by dominating the news cycle. All it would take is yet another controversy to remove this item from the news cycle once more. The regular church people won't generally call on this or rally, because they understand the greater importance of the war and other issues.

[rpannier]

4. It's A great Day In America...

Poverty and disease wiped out. There are no more wars. No more racial strife. Abundance everywhere. How do I know you ask?
Because this piece of legislation has been pushed to the legislative front.

[nostamj]

6. "there is nothing more important to discuss"

Gordon Smith, what a POS.

the highest priority in the nation is making sure that gay people are classified IN THE CONSTITUTION as less than heteros...

[flpoljunkie]

7. Lincoln Chaffee's response to the Federal Marriage Amendment...

"Nuts," said Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I. "To be seen as the party that's coming between two people that love each other doing what they want to do ... to me that's going to be seen as a liability, politically."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38360-2004Jul9.html

[Cannikin]

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