Missouri House backs ban on gay marriage | St Louis Post-Dispatch

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House backs ban on gay marriage

By Terry Ganey
Jefferson City Bureau Chief
03/31/2004


Majority floor leader Jason Crowell, R-Cape Girardeau,
left, discusses the definition of "civil marriage"
during debate on a proposal to allow Missourians to
vote on amending the state consititution to ban same-
sex marriage.
(Kelley Mccall/AP)

JEFFERSON CITY - After a debate that touched on the number of Henry the VIII's wives, Alexander the Great's gay soldiers and the fact that Egyptian kings kept concubines, the state House adopted Wednesday a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages.

Missouri voters will get the chance to vote on the amendment in the November general election if the amendment gets final legislative approval. State law already provides that Missouri recognizes a marriage only between a man and a woman.

Backers of the amendment said it was needed to lock the prohibition in the constitution to protect male-female unions from "radical judges." Opponents said it was redundant, discriminatory and a waste of time when important issues were awaiting debate.

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[WillParkinson]

1. As I said to the Congress-folk here in WI...

If it doesn't pass you guys are just going to try again so don't even tell me it's about getting it to the people. It's about hatred, pure and simple.

[MO_Dem]

2. Yep! You're right!

Also, jumping on the righ-wing bandwagon to prove their patriotism and "christianity" seems to be the fashionable thing to do--they care nothing for the schools that are making severe cuts in budgets because of lack of funding.