today, a senate committee decided to send a measure to the senate floor to approve a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. i just love me some legislating hate.
committee chairman arlen specter r-pa pointed out that not all those who voted yes on the measure actually supported the proposed constitutional amendment.
specter himself is "totally opposed" to it, but felt the matter should be debated in the senate.
yes, nothing says democracy quite like debating whether or not to write hate into the constitution.
the measure, approved in a 10-8 vote, is favored to fail on the senate floor. good ole fristy has it scheduled to appear before the senate the week of june 5.
nothing like the smell of homophobia in the morning.
posted by brett @ 12:19 PM
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um, I thought you were supposed to vote against things that you opposed. Perhaps this Specter guy is somewhat confused.
And Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), also a member of the committee, basically told Arlen to stuff it and walked out of the committee.
"See ya," he said.
http://www.planetout.com/news/article.html?2006/05/18/1
Feingold for President in '08, I say.
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