Whether or not the outing campaign had any effect on the amendment, a leading writer for the far right thinks it did, and he's ticked about it. And that, my friends, is a good thing:
A proposed constitutional amendment to protect marriage between a man and a woman will probably not receive the two-thirds vote it needs to pass the Senate. Senators John Kerry and John Edwards will vote against it. A supporter of the proposal says, "A two-thirds vote is a difficult margin to achieve in the current Senate on anything even remotely controversial." But if and when it goes down to defeat, the outcome should be attributed at least in part to a vicious and nasty''outing' campaign against closeted gays in the House and Senate, including members and staffers.
