Frist plans June vote on gay marriage

[MissMillie]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/13/gay.marriage/index.html

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday he plans a vote in early June on a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, a move likely to fail but sure to spark a fiery election-year debate.

Frist, a Tennessee Republican, told CNN he's planning the vote for the week of June 5 because he wants to deal with the issue "as early as possible" before the Senate calendar fills up in a busy election year.


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Because, what, with illegal wiretaps, Abramoff and Noe scandals, 45 million people without health insurance..... this is what we need out leaders spending their time on.... :sarcasm:

[babylonsister]

1. I wish the SEC would arrest him already! nt

[terrya]

2. And gosh, the timing MUST be coincidental...

Right before a mid-term election! :sarcasm:

Jesus, when your President is down to 40% approval and your political party is rife with corruption and ethics scandals, time to start bashing those marriage loving homos and lesbians. It's so fucking predictable with those people.

[mom cat]

4. Total coinkidink ... move along now. Nothing "partisan" happening.

[megatherium]

8. Just like in 2004, when the local megachurch really flogged

this issue -- they put billboards all over town saying "God's Plan For Marriage, One Man One Woman," and their sermon series in October was on marriage. Locals call this church "Six Flags Over Jesus" (Southeast Christian Church, Louisville, Kentucky; a church with 17,000 worshippers every weekend). This paid off for them -- the very close US Senate race in Kentucky went to the Republican incumbent.

That summer they also had a "Love Won Out" conference (Focus on the Family's traveling anti-gay roadshow) and big video conferences with speakers like Chuck Colson and James Dobson about the menace of gay marriage.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. This issue is sooooo last election!

do we have a *Frist flailing about looking for any issue to rally the fundie base* smilie?

[LeftHander]

5. He'll be wearing white too....

SOmething old and something blue....

Sweet.

[marmar]

6. Maybe he's doing it...

because he knows June is the month when Pride is celebrated in most cities. :sarcasm: Seriously, there they go again. When they're desperate, pick on gays and lesbians. Under Reagan, it was black "welfare" moms, under Bush I, it was working "feminazi" women. Now it's gays and lesbians.
I'm so tired of this bullshit. :argh:

[Skip Intro]

7. Dems should JUMP on this

List all the pressing, huge issues before this nation - recovering from bush's failures and misadventrues and negligence - energy prices and freedom at home and national security and lawlessness in the WH - list these things for the Aemrican people, and close by saying something like "with all the grave issues before us, the republican leadership chooses to focus on an election year wedge issue instead of the pressing matters before us."

[CottonBear]

9. No amendment has ever stood that denied rights to Americans.

Democrats should frame the issue as support for equal civil rights for all Americans.

It wasn't that long ago ( in the big scheme of things) that Blacks were slaves, women couldn't vote, alcohol was forbidden, Blacks couldn't vote and inter-racial marriage was illegal.

[tomg]

10. At a certain point, I don't even know how

to respond anymore. Snark,rage, what ( aside, of course, from opposing them at every possible opportunity)? Seriously, I just find myself shaking my head at these ethically and morally challenged (to put it mildly) opportunists. Frist is what Dante called one of the "sowers of discord."