I've got my McCain protectors, do you?
Works on Democrats, most Rino's and assorted morons. ;)
Posted on 05/24/2006 9:34:30 AM PDT by ND-Mystery
SENATORS TAKE POSITION IN ADVANCE OF MARRIAGE AMENDMENT VOTE
By Maggie Gallagher
Tue May 23, 7:24 PM ET
The week of June 5, the Senate will vote on a constitutional amendment on marriage. The text reads: "Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution, nor the constitution of any State, shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a man and a woman."
On Fox News Sunday, Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) announced: "I will vote against it because I believe very strongly, first of all, in the sanctity of union between man and woman, but I also believe that the states should make these decisions."
Leave marriage to the people in the states? We'd love to, senator, but at this point the judges won't let us. From Oregon to Louisiana, wherever the American people have had a chance to vote, strong majorities have voted to keep marriage as a union of husband and wife. It is the courts that are redefining common sense as bigotry and hate-mongering. Judges in one state have already imposed gay marriage (Massachusetts). Judges in two states (Nebraska and Georgia) have already struck down state marriage amendments. Courts in eight states will soon rule on gay marriage as a civil right.
By opposing the Marriage Protection Amendment, McCain leaves himself with a position on gay marriage that is virtually indistinguishable from Hillary Clinton's. McCain says that makes him one special guy: "I've found in my life that when I do what I think is right -- for example, on the marriage amendment -- it always turns out in the end OK," he told Fox News. "When I do things for political expediency, which I have from time to time, it's always turned out poorly."
I'm betting the good senator has miscalculated. In the first place, he is likely to find burnishing his mainstream media halo futile now that he's the front-runner for the Republican nomination for president. Meanwhile, the latest Gallup poll released this week finds 79 percent of Republicans oppose gay marriage (as do 45 percent of Democrats); two-thirds of Republicans support a federal marriage amendment. As Gallup notes: "There has been no appreciable change over the past two years in Americans' attitudes about legal recognition for same-sex marriage."
Opposition to gay marriage is holding, in spite of the vitriol of its advocates (or maybe because of it?). First lady Laura Bush recently told Fox News Sunday: "I don't think (gay marriage) should be used as a campaign tool, obviously. It requires a lot of sensitivity to just talk about the issue -- a lot of sensitivity."
Of course, she's right. Could someone send the Human Rights Campaign a memo?
When Boston Catholic Charities reluctantly decided it must pull out of the adoption business because Catholic institutions cannot conscientiously allow same-sex couple adoption, HRC president Joe Solmonese had this to say about the leaders of the Catholic Church: "What these bishops are doing is shameful, wrong and has nothing to do whatsoever with faith." At a news conference this week, an ad hoc group called the Clergy for Fairness offered similar thundering moral denunciations. Rev. Paul Simmons, director of the Center for Ethics at the University of Louisville, proclaimed: "The Federal Marriage Amendment has the smell and feel of Salem." Its supporters, he said "use religious liberty as a way to camouflage bigotry in the name of God."
Memo to McCain: Decisions in New Jersey and California could come at any time, raising voters' concerns about out-of-control courts bent on declaring their faith-based view of marriage a form of bigotry.
Are you sure you want to side with Hillary on this one?
(Readers may reach Maggie Gallagher at MaggieBox2006@yahoo.com.)
He is a lunatic........nuff said!
Hey weasel, you should brush up a little bit on how the Constitution is amended. The states DO make the final decision. You can merely prevent them from having that opportunity.
While I would love to see this amendment, there are a few others that are really more important.
1) Modify the 14th to certify that parents must be legal residents of the United States in order for their child to be deemed a citizen upon birth.
2) A constitutional limit on a flat/consumption taxation which includes a mechanism for super-majority change w/presidential approval.
3) Term limits on all federal Court Justices of 20 years.
4) Constitutional limits on campaign financing to only allow contributions by citizens that are eligible and registered to vote. (No unions, PACs or Corporate donations)
5) English as the Official language.
I am not sure on the priority of these, but they are certainly as/more important.
I've got my McCain protectors, do you?
Works on Democrats, most Rino's and assorted morons. ;)
Exactly.
Constitutional ammendments are approved by the states, not the people, per se except in so far as they elect the representatives of the state legislatures.
Because the Unites STATES is a federation of States.
It used to be a lot more obvious before Lincoln, et al.
McCain is a grudge holder of the 1st order. He and Hillary as so much alike they should be on the same ticket. At these they will have a deep-seated comtempt in common for those who have deeply held beliefs about God, family and country.
1) Modify the 14th to certify that parents must be legal residents of the United States in order for their child to be deemed a citizen upon birth.
2) A constitutional limit on a flat/consumption taxation which includes a mechanism for super-majority change w/presidential approval.
3) Term limits on all federal Court Justices of 20 years.
4) Constitutional limits on campaign financing to only allow contributions by citizens that are eligible and registered to vote. (No unions, PACs or Corporate donations)
5) English as the Official language.
I am not sure on the priority of these, but they are certainly as/more important.
6) Repeal the 17th amendment.
Does ANYONE here know how the US Constitution is amended. You know that there are 2 ways to amend it.
I practically shouted those very words at the TV when McCain said that. We're one court decision away from having all the propositions that were passed in recent years swept away. Any month now, I expect a Federal court to declare that all states must recognize any "marriage" from any other state.
Reciprocity.
Then there's the more familiar method of Congress/Senate then on to 3/4's of the states legislatures.
Is there a prize?
So you're against Roe v. Wade on the same basis, correct? And as president, you'll appoint only judges who intend to so overturn? No? Why not? You sound like a proponent of states' rights to me.
A hypocrite who panders to the media at every turn is more like it.
Just one more in a long list of reasons to never vote for McCain for anything.
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