Brownback Calls for Pressure on Senate Dems to Support Marriage Amendment

[kweerwolf]

(Drivel from our friends at the American Fascist ... errrr, "Family" Association ... pure bullshit, but interesting in an I-can't-turn-away-from-the-train-wreck sort of way)

There is good news and there is bad news for supporters of a federal marriage amendment. The good news? The bill should be acted upon soon. The bad news? There may not enough support to pass it.

Kansas Republican Senator Sam Brownback says the federal marriage amendment will finally see action within a matter of days. "We will have it up probably coming to the full Judiciary Committee in two weeks," he says. "It will probably pass on a strict party line vote, defining marriage as a union of a man and a woman."

Then the measure will come to the Senate floor, he explains. "And I wouldn't doubt that the same thing will happen this time around that happened last time. That is, the Republicans will vote for it, and the Democrats will vote against it," he states.

That could be a problem -- because the current make-up of the U.S. Senate shows 55 in the Republican column. A two-thirds vote (67) would be necessary for the bill to move out of the Senate to the House for consideration. Brownback says without help, the amendment will not make it out of the Senate.

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/5/afa/32006c.asp

[Ian David]

1. What the fuck? I thought we were scapegoating IMMIGRANTS now...

how'd they drag the gays back into this again?

[mitchtv]

2. keeping both irons on the fire

Two sets of nuts, some overlap, true, but some states maybe able to wring another election out of it

[rep the dems]

3. Fuck Sam Brownback.