Another Stupid Amendment Defeated
At least something good has come out of this Congress:
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.
Good to know this is one of the most pressing issues facing the nation these days.
Retards.
Nanny State | Mr. Bingley | 
July 18, 2006 3:11 pm
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Retards is right.
It would be the worst thing for all concerned if this pferdkaese passed. (Sorry, channeling the Spider there. It’s not a nice slang.) The second the Congress thinks this is something they can define, it becomes something that they can regulate – and then grant or refuse at whim.
One question, from a spinning POV – why does this nitwittery suddenly sail under the banner of “socially conservative”? Conservatives tend to desire freedom from government intrusion, not the reverse.
I’m not quite sure what a ‘conservative’ is anymore, ‘Fly.
I could be a Conservative!!
Oh, yes I yam, I yam!
I don’t know ‘fly – I think a lot of “social conservatives” have been closet nanny staters for a very long time. They just have different goals from the socialist nanny staters on the left.
yep, that’s true, KG, there certainly are some who want to rein in things a bit too much from the other side, as well.
Ayn Rand explained it this way:
“The conservatives reject reason in favor of faith, the liberals, in favor of emotion.”
I could be a Conservative if I WANTED to!!
Oh, yes I yam, I yam!
I guess that puts sis in the “emotion” category.
I could be a Crabby Pants Mr. Summers if I WANTED to!!
BUT I DON’T!