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It is a shame that the U.S. House of Representatives failed to approve a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. The House voted 227-186 against the amendment Thursday. The vote was mostly along party lines. A two-thirds majority was needed for approval. One would have thought that this amendment would have had a better chance of passing after a year of rulings by judges with personal agendas. This battle is far from over. “This is only the beginning, I’m telling you,” said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. “Marriage is the basic unit of society, the very DNA of civilization, and...

QUEERLY BELOVED Marriage protection rejected by House Constitutional amendment fails to get two-thirds vote -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: October 1, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON – A constitutional amendment defining marriage as an institution between one man and one woman was defeated in the House of Representatives last night as it fell 49 votes short of the two-thirds needed. The vote was 227-186. "God created Adam and Eve, He didn't create Adam and Steve," said Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md., on behalf of a measure that supporters said was designed to protect an institution as old as civilization itself. Democrats...

In case you haven't heard, the Marriage amendment got shot down in the house: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134134,00.htmlHere's the Republicans voting Nay: Bass Biggert Bono Castle Cox Dreier Foley Frelinghuysen Gerlach Gibbons Gilchrest Greenwood Hobson Hostettler Houghton Johnson (CT) Kirk Knollenberg Kolbe Leach McInnis Ose Paul Pryce (OH) Sanders Shays Simmons Here's the republicans not voting: Boehlert Cannon Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Dunn Hunter Nethercutt Ros-Lehtinen Tauzin Be sure to contact these people & show your appreciation. Here's the list of Dems voting FOR: Berry Bishop (GA) Boucher Boyd Carson (OK) Chandler Cooper Costello Cramer Davis (AL) Davis (TN) Edwards Etheridge Ford Gordon...

WASHINGTON —Gay rights groups expect that a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage will come up for a vote in the U.S. House on Sept. 30, leaving lawmakers time to stake a position before November elections. The move could finally put an end to more than a year of back-and-forth from House committee rooms to chambers regarding the contentious amendment’s future, marked by sharp protests, cancelled hearings, cancelled votes, bizarre alliances and a campaign outing Congressional staffers. But if defeated, the amendment would certainly make an appearance in the campaign platforms of many conservatives and most likely on the...

Wednesday, September 29, 2004 The smart vote Posted: September 29, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Rebecca Hagelin © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Advocates of same-sex "marriage" are known to reach for one of the oldest arguments in the liberal arsenal – that a vote in favor of their point of view is a "smart" vote, and a vote against it is the mark of a knuckle-dragging reactionary. Well, is it? The question takes on added prominence as the House of Representatives prepares to vote Thursday on a constitutional amendment protect marriage as the institution of one man and one woman. Congress must pass the amendment...

Urge House Members to Support The Marriage Protection Amendment Last Updated: September 28, 2004 The House of Representatives is expected to vote on the "Marriage Protection Amendment," H.J. Res. 106, on Sept. 30, 2004. (The Marriage Protection Amendment was formerly called the "Federal Marriage Amendment" or "FMA.") We have researched the positions of members of Congress - and have classified them in four categories: cosponsors (those who have signed their names to the amendment); members expected to support; expected to oppose; and undecided. The representatives we can count on to vote in favor of the amendment are the cosponsors. As...

Page 83 of 2004 Republican Party Platform: Protecting Marriage We strongly support President Bush’s call for a Constitutional amendment that fully protects marriage, and we believe that neither federal nor state judges nor bureaucrats should force states to recognize other living arrangements as equivalent to marriage.

WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled House emphatically defeated a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage Thursday, the latest in a string of conservative pet causes pushed to a vote by GOP leaders in the run-up to Election Day (search).

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 484(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)       H J RES 106      2/3 YEA-AND-NAY      30-Sep-2004      5:25 PM       QUESTION:  On Passage       BILL TITLE: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage Yeas Nays PRES NV Republican 191 27   9 Democratic 36 158   11 Independent   1     TOTALS 227 186   20 ---- YEAS    227 --- Aderholt Akin Alexander Bachus Baker Ballenger Barrett (SC) Bartlett (MD) Barton (TX) BeauprezBerry BilirakisBishop (GA) Bishop (UT) Blackburn Blunt Boehner Bonilla Bonner BoozmanBoucherBoyd Bradley (NH) Brady (TX) Brown (SC) Brown-Waite, Ginny Burgess Burns Burr Burton (IN) Buyer...