Posted on 09/03/2005 1:19:30 AM PDT by Crackingham
California's Senate has voted to allow gay marriage, making it the first legislative body in the nation to back the idea and setting off a frantic scramble for votes in the Assembly. The 21-15 vote Thursday handed gay rights advocates in the country's most populous state a historic victory. Massachusetts issued marriage licenses to gays and lesbians only after court rulings.
"We are so very close," said Assemblyman Mark Leno, a Democrat who wrote the bill. "It would be very disappointing for this body not to be able to stand up for civil rights."
Leno said he planned to bring up the bill Tuesday and predicted that the Senate vote would help sway his undecided colleagues. In June, the Assembly rejected his bill by four votes. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office had no comment Thursday on how the governor would respond if the bill reached his desk, spokeswoman Margita Thompson said.
Several senators equated the struggle for gay marriage to the civil rights movements. They said arguments against the bill were similar to arguments in supporting slavery and opposing interracial marriage.
"This is probably the most profound civil rights movement of our generation, without a doubt," said Sen. Jackie Speier, a Democrat who supported the bill.
Sen. Sheila Kuehl, one of six gay members of the Legislature, told the chamber that gay couples have the same hopes for their relationships as heterosexual couples.
"Gay and lesbian people fall in love. We settle down. We commit our lives to one another. We raise our children. We protect them. We try to be good citizens," said Kuehl, a Democrat. "This is a bill whose time has come."
Against the vote of the people.
Jesus said: "And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore, they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." -from THE BIBLE: Matthew 19:4-6
Against the overwhelming vote of the people.
Given the events of the past week, it's time we realized that life is serious business, and we as a society haven't the luxury of accommodating these games and charades. If they want to play make-believe with their sexuality, let them do it on their own time, and with their own resources. Looking at what's going on in the world right now, I'm fed up with this crap.
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This is so frustrating. We just voted against this a short time ago. WTF?
They could call this the Ben Dover bill I guess.
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It is my understanding that it requires a 2/3 vote of the legislature to overturn a ballot initiative...
Sorry, legislature but this is *not* the way to go about this. Although, if they *do* pass it, maybe it will help folks vote for change instead of sending back the scoundrels for another two years of pillaging the tax payer's pockets.
And of course, I'm going to say the obvious: How typical of the gay lobby to do something like this while everyone's attention is focused on the Katrina Catastrophe.
Well put.
He also said he was going to cut up the credit cards and he has done nothing but borrow ever since. The Squirminator has no backbone.
Ok, here is a good morality question.
You are Gay and also Pro-Life.
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