GOP May Revise Marriage Amendment

[GreenPartyVoter]

Senate Republicans yesterday weighed a proposal to scale back their constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages in hopes of picking up some votes, although they conceded that passage is still beyond their reach.

Democrats objected to the move and derided it as a desperation effort to avoid the embarrassment of a huge defeat when the Senate votes on the issue tomorrow.

The maneuvering came as the Senate entered its second day of debate on the amendment. Senate offices were deluged with phone calls and e-mails prompted by heavy grass-roots mobilizations over the weekend, topped off by two appeals for passage by President Bush (news - web sites).

Faced with the likelihood of falling far short of the two-thirds majority needed to amend the Constitution, some Senate Republicans were pushing for a chance to vote on an alternative that stated simply that marriage exists only between a man and a woman.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20040713/pl_washpost/a45149_2004jul12

[varun]

1. Disgusting...the Repuke tactics...

changing a sacred document like the Constitution by making last minute changes...without debates, without discussion...

:puke:

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Democracy just ain't their thing.

[oly]

3. It's just their way of keepin the stupid issue in the news

for a while longer. It'll fail, the religiously insane will get their licks on Kerry/Edwards and life goes on. Just another thing scratched off Roves's list campaign "activities."

[koopie57]

4. all the things going on in the world

hunger, AIDS, the middle east, unemployment .... and these sombitches are still obsessed with making a change to the constitution making sure two people in love can't marry cuz they are of the same sex. What difference does it make to them? And how dangerous is it to our society?

I think that if they vote on this stupidity, only those congressmen who are still married to their first wife and who have been faithful should be the only ones allowed to vote.

[rniel]

5. Right

they just want to keep it in the news. I think the strategy is to get people thinking and steer them right into the republican ticket. Who knows how effective it will be though.

[bleowheels]

6. Maybe they should call it the "Republicans running scared" amendment!

:evilgrin:

[Cats Against Frist]

7. Is anyone else watching the Uncle Tom Circle Jerk on CSPAN 2?

This is disgusting. If this is an issue that is so immediately important to ALL CITIZENS, why would the GOP parade 20 or so black fundamentalists out to him and haw over this on TV?

This is NOTHING but an attempt to mobilize their base, and mobilize black evangelicals -- which they LUST after.

This is sick and these people suck and the GOP is, as far as I'm concerned, a bigger threat than any "revisionist judge" to the Constitution.

Bunch of holy rolling mother fuckers.

[Beetwasher]

8. The Dems Need To Go On the OFFENSIVE About This And Do It NOW!

They need to attack every Repub that suipports this and they need to repeat over and over that the Repubs support DISCRIMINATION and that religious beliefs have NO PLACE IN THE CONSTITUTION.