"said Mr. Chafee, a centrist Republican up for re-election"
Calling Lincoln Log Cabin Chafee "a centrist" is awfully generous. To quote Dennis Miller, He's farther to the left than the part in Sam Donaldson's hair.
that mccain....i tell you....vicious judas goat along with chafee....they may call themselves 'republican' and you can fool some of the people some the time, but you can't fool the all the people all the time....except those flaming libs with their heads up their tails who enjoy being fooled all the time....
I have to ask - and I mean this seriously, not flippantly - is this the ONLY public policy question you care about? I never see you post on anything else, JUST gay topics.
The best bet to replace Chafee is to defeat him in the primary...
I dont have a vote in this election (I'm in California), I do have some money to help defeat Chafee... I've given money to Steve Laffey's campaign (money I saved by not giving to the RNC or RSNC this year).
http://www.electlaffey.com/site/index.php
I blasted all of the Republican Senators (and their staffers) that voted against the Bill. I signed off with: You voted today, we get to vote tomorrow. THese idiots are not accountable to the people that elected them.
The United States Senate was forced to take steps to definitively define marriage by just a few half-baked judges. Calling a same-sex couple "married" is like calling asparagus broccoli.
In the eyes of God, there is only one kind of marriage, and God will not be mocked.
This vote is very illustrative of how 100 loud-mouthed lesbians and queers trump the extremely vast majority opinion of a nation.