"Gay Marriage Ban Short of Votes in Senate" Looks like this is going

NOWHERE.....for at least a year. IF we take back the government in '06 and '08...it's a DEAD ISSUE for a long, long time. :bounce: :woohoo: Ben Nelson of Nebraska, as usual, supports the repuke agenda. Why is he a Democrat?


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But Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said he will vote against it on the floor but allowed it to survive his panel in part to give the Republicans the debate party leaders believe will pay off on Election Day. Specter has chosen a different battle with the Bush administration this week _ a hearing Tuesday on the ways the FBI spies on journalists who publish classified information.

As that hearing gets under way, debate on the marriage amendment will enter its second day on the Senate floor. All but one of the Senate Democrats _ the exception is Ben Nelson of Nebraska _ oppose the measure and, with moderate Republicans, are expected to block an up-or-down vote, killing the measure for the year.

Democrats say the amendment is a divisive bow to religious conservatives, and point out that it conflicts with the GOP's opposition to big government interference.

"A vote for this amendment is a vote for bigotry pure and simple," said Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, where the state Supreme Court legalized gay marriages in 2003.<snip>

http://www.comcast.net/news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2006/06/05/406773.html

Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco, which in 2004 began issuing marriage licenses to gay couples, on Monday denounced Bush's move as predictable and "stale rhetoric" aimed at rallying conservatives for this year's midterm elections.

"It's politics. It's pandering and it's placating a core constituency, the evangelicals," Newsom said on ABC's "Good Morning America."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060605/ap_on_go_co/congress_gay_marriage

Stale rhetoric.....as stale as can be and people are seeing through the RW ploys now. Need to win an election? Need to stir the RW wacko fundie pot? Just bring up Gay marriage and abortion.:eyes:

until November?

The mind boggles.

House in '06....it won't be an issue in '08. Right? We MUST win back the House this year. We MUST kill their agenda.


from my OP:
All but one of the Senate Democrats _ the exception is Ben Nelson of Nebraska _ oppose the measure and, with moderate Republicans, are expected to block an up-or-down vote, killing the measure for the year.

brought up by every Congress since AT LEAST the mid-60s . . . way back then, I worked for one of the two Members of Congress (John Dow of NY) who voted against the flag burning bill (the other being Phil Burton of San Francisco) . . . passed the House no problem, but died in the Senate . . . as it always does . . .