Marriage didn’t get “saved”
Well, the Republican’s effort to show the nation exactly what kind of people they are was successful. Mercifully, the cause that they were pushing was not.
The Senate blocked on Wednesday a bid to amend the Constitution to essentially ban same-sex marriage.
Republicans pushed the plan even though supporters conceded the measure did not have enough votes to pass.
Proponents failed to get the 60 votes needed to end debate and move to a vote on the actual amendment. The Senate vote was 49-48 to end debate.
So there’s bad news and good in this. The bad news is that 49 of our 100 senators are giant flaming bigots. Come on, people. Even if it wins you votes, wrong is wrong.
The good news is that, hey, maybe they’ll try to actually solve a problem or two instead of pandering to the worst inclinations that this nation has to offer. If we’re lucky, maybe we’ll get a good, spirited and always useful debate about flag burning. Yeah. That’d be rad.
June 7th, 2006 at 1:22 pm
The legislating personal morality –> in the freaking Constitution <– is the part that gets me. Last time we tried that it, uh, didn’t work out so well.
June 8th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
Flag burning is why I did not vote for Ms. Feinstein in Tuesday’s primary. She’s a sponsor of the flag burning amendment. I’ve sent her lots of emails on the subject, and at least she sends form letters back to tell me that “We must disagree on this”. Boxer and Schiff don’t even write back. Not that she had much chance of losing, unfortunately, and not like I’m going to vote for the far worse Repub candidate for Senate in the fall. Damn two party system…
But remember! The Senate voted unanimously that the national anthem should be sung in English! They’re doing things, man!
June 8th, 2006 at 8:32 pm
Feinstein is at best an enemy of free expression. If she’s not trying to protect a freaking symbol at the expense of what it represents, she’s doing her best to make sure that copyrights are indefinite and record companies are allowed to shoot school chidren who hear a few seconds of a song that’s playing in a passing car. She’s the best example of the fact that the phrase that best applies to both the Republicans and the Democrats is “same shit, different pile.”