House Rejects Gay Marriage Ban Amendment - AGAIN!

[kpete]

House Rejects Gay Marriage Ban Amendment
- By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, July 18, 2006


(07-18) 11:06 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --


The House on Tuesday rejected a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, ending for another year a congressional debate that supporters of the ban hope will still reverberate in this fall's election.

The 236-187 vote for the proposal to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman was 47 short of the two-thirds majority needed to advance a constitutional amendment. It followed six weeks after the Senate also decisively defeated the amendment, a top priority of social conservatives.

But supporters said the vote will make a difference when people got to the polls in November.

"The overwhelming majority of the American people support traditional marriage," said Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo., sponsor of the amendment. "And the people have a right to know whether their elected representatives agree with them."

more at:
http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fpageoneq.com%2Frssfeedstuff%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D8197

AND
Congressman: We Should ‘Prevent Those Who Commit Adultery or Get a Divorce From Running for Office’



Today, the House of Representative is spending the day debating a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. (It has no chance of becoming law, since the Senate rejected it last month.)

On the House floor, Rep. Lincoln Davis (D-TN) said he was opposed the amendment but only because it didn’t go far enough. Davis said Congress should “outlaw divorce in this country” and “outlaw adultery and make it a felony.” In addition, Davis said, “we should also prevent those who commit adultery, or get a divorce, from running for office.”

Davis said it was important to “go after the other threats to the institution” not just the threat from homosexuals.

Video and Transcript at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/18/outlaw-marriage-divorce/

[BlueInPhilly]

1. Was he being serious or sarcastic?

You never know nowadays with these politicians. If he was being sarcastic, then BINGO! BRAVO TO REP. DAVIS!

[AlCzervik]

2. a poison pill without the actual pill perhaps?

[Kurovski]

4. The biggest threat to the institution of marriage is poverty.

And now I'll go read the article to see if that's what Davis meant.

Edit: Nope, it's not what he meant, but he does manage to steer the argument toward the reality-based world.

[Glorfindel]

5. He was probably being sarcastic but those East Tennessee

peckerwoods he represents won't be smart enough to catch it, so he wins points both ways. (I'm kidding about the East Tennessee peckerwoods, by the way. One set of my great-grandparents came from McMinn County.)
:bounce:

[BOSSHOG]

3. I think I like Rep Davis from Tennessee

I look forward to the input from the religiously insane who maintain the right to marry and divorce ad infinitum while restricting constitutional liberties to citizens they hate to share with us their thoughts about banning divorce and adultery. Surely that would not be a problem for christians but an incredible kick in the balls to "christians."

[sinkingfeeling]

6. I wrote a letter to one of 'preachers' who didn't get elected president of

SBC last month. He's a local with his own mega-church. He wrote a column in our paper about the great need for 'the marriage amendment' and I replied. I cited the stats on how divorce rates were higher in the 5 states with the largest Southern Baptist percentages and how there were more incidents of domestic violence and child molestation. Then I suggested that he work to ensure that marriage was only between ONE man and ONE woman for their entire lives. End divorce and make sexual relations outside of their marriages a felony. No divorce, no adultery, and even if one partner died...you only got ONE marriage.

[BOSSHOG]

8. Wow

No doubt his mind is still realing. What? "Christians" can't opt for divorce? What a wacky liberal idea. Such truth and commonsense on your part interferes with their blind hate of those who don't fuck like they do.

[DanCa]

7. Unbelivable

Why I am not gay I have a new found understanding and empathy for my gay brothers and sisters with all the stem cell crap going on in the senate. It's beyond evil to deny anyone thier basic rights. Just for once I would like to see a republican practice what he preaches when he mentions
human dignity. How dare the repukes claim that their moral and play with peoples lives this way.
How dare they.

[bdamomma]

9. these guys in the House have nothing else to focus on

other than same-sex marriage, what a waste of time, when there are other things to focus on, like how people are getting screwed from this administration/regime. I wish they would just focus and get these thugs out of office.

[TrueFunkSoldier]

10. Of course it failed! It was supposed to...

The point was not that the Repugs thought that the amendment would past. The objective was to make the Dems look bad. Now everyone is on record either opposing "gay marriage," or supporting "fags and dykes." The Repugs are not only disgusting; they are desperate! This is the ONLY way that they can ensure that their sheeple get out to vote.

This is a very sad country that we live in. Extremely sad state of affairs...