AP: GOP Seeks Replay With Gay Marriage Vote

[Eugene]

GOP Seeks Replay With Gay Marriage Vote

By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer

Monday, July 17, 2006

(07-17) 00:22 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

Undeterred by a decisive defeat in the Senate, House Republicans are moving ahead
with a vote on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, forcing lawmakers
to take a stand just months before the election.

The vote, scheduled for Tuesday, will occur in a week devoted to several priorities
of social conservatives — what House GOP leaders call their "American values agenda."
Also on tap are a pledge protection bill and several Republican-backed stem cell bills.

President Bush, under some pressure from conservatives to take a more active role
in promoting their issues, spoke out for the gay marriage amendment several times
before it was rejected in the Senate last month.

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Defeat of the amendment is once again a near-certainty. The Senate fell 11 votes
short of the 60 votes needed just to advance the proposal to a yes-or-no decision.
Two years ago, just before another election, the House came up some 40 votes shy
of the two-thirds majority required to advance a constitutional amendment.

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Full article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/07/17/national/w002257D06.DTL

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1. Well it was so much fun last time!

Yeah, they can run the same platform, steal the vote, and then lie again about how everyone voted "against the gays", when the truth is that very few people give a damn enough. But try to prove that they didn't vote on that platform.

That's the genius of soft "values" platforms. You can pretend it's the reason why you win, even if it's not.

[madeline_con]

2. Proof that Repug "values" are not American values. n/t

[HuffleClaw]

3. a 'do-over' ?

i fail to see the point, other than to illustrate a failed agenda.

[AtomicKitten]

4. I guess they didn't get the memo

that nobody gives a shit. Same old dog and pony act, different election year.

[cboy4]

5. If I were a rep., I'd blow this up really big and display it on the floor:

[cboy4]

6. On the other hand, very good reason to OPPOSE gays in general:

[durrrty libby]

7. The most despicable bigoted reps

pandering to the despicable bigoted base.

What a way to advance a country

How do these people live with themselves?