"House Takes Up Gay Marriage Issue Again"

[GreenPartyVoter]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal judges should keep their hands off marriage, House Republicans said Thursday, pressing for passage of legislation to give states final say over recognizing same-sex unions sanctioned elsewhere.

Federal judges, unelected and given lifetime appointments, "must not be allowed to rewrite marriage policy for the states," Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., said at the start of a debate tinged by election-year politics.

Republican leaders predicted easy passage for the Marriage Protection Act, a week after the Senate dealt gay marriage opponents a setback by failing to advance a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex unions.

The legislation would strip the Supreme Court and other federal courts of their jurisdiction to rule on challenges to state bans on gay marriages under a provision of a 1996 federal law that defines marriage as between a man and a woman

http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20040722/D83VTHEG0.html?PG=home&SEC=news

[LuminousX]

1. Nice to see there aren't more pressing issues to worry about

Things must be hunkydory.

[Bill McBlueState]

2. pfft... unelected judges

Federal judges, unelected and given lifetime appointments, "must not be allowed to rewrite marriage policy for the states," Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., said...

I love how after over two centuries of an independent judiciary, Republicans are suddenly awash in horror at the existence of the third branch of government. Those damn unelected judges!! What were the Founders thinking??

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Stupid founders! Darn that Thomas Jefferson! For shame, Ben Franklin!