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Calif gay marriage bill to be revived
AP ^ | 6/20/5 | LISA LEFF

Posted on 06/20/2005 7:52:33 PM PDT by SmithL

San Francisco -- Less than three weeks after a bill to legalize same-sex marriage died in the California Assembly, a Democratic lawmaker said Monday that he plans to revive the measure this session by attaching it to legislation already pending in the state Senate.

Assemblyman Mark Leno, one of six openly gay members of the Legislature, said he has decided to employ a legislative maneuver known as "gut and amend" to resurrect the bill that on June 2 fell four votes shy of gaining the simple majority it needed to pass the 80-member house.

"My hope is that we will have a bill amended by the end of this week or the beginning of next," said Leno, declining to offer specifics on which legislation he plans to rewrite. "We intend to do this."

Leno's bill would have changed the California family code to define marriage between "two persons" instead of between a man and a woman. To bring it back to life, he can substitute his measure's language into a bill that successfully passed from the Assembly to the Senate.

If it passes Senate committees and makes it off the Senate floor, it would be the first time a legislative chamber in the nation had voted to give same-sex couples the same rights as heterosexual spouses. The measure would have to return to the Assembly for another round of voting before it could be sent to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: buggers; cults; felchers; homosexualagenda; idolatry; perverts; playinghouse; samesexmarriage
Here we go again.
1 posted on 06/20/2005 7:52:33 PM PDT by SmithL
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I can't stand that the homos use the word gay...

Gay means happy. It should be called the homo bill.

2 posted on 06/20/2005 7:55:01 PM PDT by Battle Hymn of the Republic
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To: SmithL

"One-Bill Gil" (Cedillo?) in Southern CA pushing for drivers licenses for illegals has his counterpart up here in Mark Leno and the never-ending gay marriage campaign.


3 posted on 06/20/2005 7:56:39 PM PDT by jiggyboy
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To: Battle Hymn of the Republic

*cough* Excuse me. I meant "the never-ending homo marriage campaign".


4 posted on 06/20/2005 7:57:42 PM PDT by jiggyboy
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To: SmithL

Communism pure and simple. Again. And again. And again....


6 posted on 06/20/2005 7:59:49 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug

How inronic... liberals in the Senate stop actions that they disagree with, that DO have the votes. While at the same time force though things they favor elsewhere, that DO NOT have the votes.


7 posted on 06/20/2005 8:11:37 PM PDT by FreedomNeocon (I'm in no Al-Samood for this Sheiite.)
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To: SmithL

THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA VOTED AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE just a few years ago. The nutjob liberals in the state legislature are trying to destroy the will of the people.


8 posted on 06/20/2005 8:26:35 PM PDT by CaliGangsta
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To: CaliGangsta
THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA VOTED AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE just a few years ago. The nutjob liberals in the state legislature are trying to destroy the will of the people.

Yup.

9 posted on 06/20/2005 9:07:41 PM PDT by Squeako (ACLU: "Only Christians, Boy Scouts and War Memorials are too vile to defend.")
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To: SmithL
Didn't say I didn't warn you. The Democrats plan to employ this parliamentary sleigh of hand manuver to thwart the will of the voters at the last minute.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
10 posted on 06/21/2005 4:04:42 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: SmithL

Let's hope it fails again with Hispanic rat votes against. THIS, more than anything is a huge problem for the evil donkey. It like the guards on the old Berlin wall jumping over themselves. How can the rats hope to keep Hispanics on their plantation when the guards are not doing their job?


11 posted on 06/21/2005 5:12:29 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Dealing with liberals? Remember: when you wrestle with a pig, you both get dirty and he loves it.)
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