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davidinalameda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:12 PM
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Maryland GOP Reintroduces Anti-Gay Amendment
http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/02/022806mdAmend.htm

Republicans in the Maryland legislature refuse to abandon their quest for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages.

They introduced a new proposal Tuesday despite the defeat of an earlier draft. Delegate Anthony O'Donnell, the second-ranking Republican in the House, drew up a new amendment that defines marriage as between men and women only, and adds that people of both sexes have equality under the law. O'Donnell's amendment does not forbid civil unions.

``This is a very different approach'' than an earlier amendment that failed in committee, O'Donnell said. Several Republican lawmakers pushed for an amendment on gay marriage after a Baltimore judge last month ruled that the state law banning same-sex unions is unconstitutional.

Baltimore Circuit Judge M. Brooke Murdock stayed her own decision, which is currently being appealed. But the ruling increased calls for a constitutional amendment that would shield the ban from being overturned by a judge.

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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:14 PM
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1. I'm soooo sick of these Reich wing SOBs...
Hopefully, they'll all have gay children who will become radical activists.
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:14 PM
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2. What is their obsession with this...
Edited on Wed Mar-01-06 01:15 PM by MadMaddie
Cities are literally falling apart and this is what they are focused on....

I think they are getting desperate with the prospect of loosing congress in November they are trying to push through everything they can....
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:19 PM
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3. Why is the Reichwing freaking out ????
What's with the sudden flurry of hate-legislation ??
from abortion to this? They seem to be in a frenzy
of proposing the worst laws on earth since the Inquisition.

Do they know that they are going to be voted out of office soon??
Or is this just fascism collapsing under the weight of it's own folly?
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mitchtv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 04:46 PM
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4. they have to get thewingnutd riled up
It's part of their MO in an election year. Wedge issues for their base.
Something the Dems could learn from
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