The latest AP story on the amendment ain't good news for the gay-bashing Republicans (and Zell Miller). It seems their own members are now getting ticked at them for bringing up the amendment.
Some favor the two sentence version of the amendment that will most certainly ban civil unions and possibly rescind every gay rights law and pro-gay corporate policy in the country, while others (like traitorous sell-out Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR)) prefer the one sentence, marriage is a man and a woman, version - a version that no one has a clue what its legal effect would in fact be. Would this ban divorce? Would this ban common law marriages? Would it ban marriages under 18 (kids who aren't men and women)? No one knows because the screwball Republicans just wrote this thing in the past 24 hours, no hearings, nothing.
My two favorite parts of the article:
"There is a master plan out there from those who want to destroy the institution of marriage to, first of all, begin to take this issue in a few select courts throughout this country at the state level," said Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo. Pointing to rulings in Vermont and Massachusetts, he said that "once they get their favorable rulings from activist judges ... they want to take it to the federal courts and they'll eventually move it to the Supreme Court."No word on whether his own gay staffer is part of that conspiracy... A conspiracy that apparently centers around using the democratic process to seek political change. Call in John Ashcroft and take these communists away!
Then there's this from Rick Dog-Sex Santorum:
In a strongly worded speech, Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., said some criticism runs along these lines: "Marriage is hate. Marriage is a stain. Marriage is an evil thing. That's what we hear. People who stand for traditional marriage are haters, they're bashers, they're mean-spirited, they're intolerant. ... Well, we're not," he added.First off, huh? Marriage is hate, marriage is a stain? What is he even talking about? Secondly, the man is begging us not to think he's intolerant. Sounds like someone didn't get nearly enough hugs from mommy and daddy when they were a kid and now is acting out against us.
