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.
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Gay means happy. It should be called the homo bill.
"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.
*cough* Excuse me. I meant "the never-ending homo marriage campaign".
Communism pure and simple. Again. And again. And again....
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.
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.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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?
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