Posted on 06/05/2006 10:00:29 AM PDT by kellynla
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush and congressional Republicans are aiming the political spotlight this week on efforts to ban gay marriage, with events at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue - all for a constitutional amendment with scant chance of passage but wide appeal among social conservatives.
"Ages of experience have taught us that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society," Bush said in his weekly radio address. "Government, by recognizing and protecting marriage, serves the interests of all."
The president was to make further remarks Monday in favor of the amendment as the Senate opened three days of debate. Neither chamber, though, is likely to pass the amendment by the two-thirds majority required to send it to the states - three quarters of which would then have to approve it.
Many Republicans support the measure because they say traditional marriage strengthens society; others don't but concede the reality of election-year politics.
"Marriage between one man and one woman does a better job protecting children better than any other institution humankind has devised," said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn. "As such, marriage as an institution should be protected, not redefined."
But Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said he will vote against it on the floor but allowed it to survive his panel in part to give the Republicans the debate party leaders believe will pay off on Election Day. Specter has chosen a different battle with the Bush administration this week - a hearing Tuesday on the ways the FBI spies on journalists who publish classified information.
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"As much as I'd like to believe they're leading the swinging lifestyle of their youth, it just strains the imagination at this stage of the game."
LOL this just made my day :)
ROTFLMAO -yes, we "fake conservatives" are simply a non critically thinking pander influenced mass of bigots...
Actually, the government doesn't regulate marriage, it simply chooses what to recognize. There is nothing that prevents Adam and Steve (and Fred) from dressing up in their whitest (who are they kidding?) frocks and having a day-long celebration in whatever way they want.
Including with snakes.
Except not on a plane.
The vote will tell us who to who not to support in the next primary!
There was a time in my youth when barmaids and models rained down from the sky upon me. Scotch flowed like wine. And sleep was for wimps.
Today, I look at those same types of girls and they just look, well, tiring. Like an exercise bicycle.
You guys are hopeless rubes. Well, when you're not busy being the Leather Condom Fairy for young sodomites.
Pretty unbelievable the amount of people supporting the homosexual agenda while trying to appear that they aren't.
Actually, the timing of this makes me sick. It is such obvious pandering by Bush and the Pubs to the right wing of his party who are disgusted at them all because of the immigration issue. So they pull the tried and true rabbit out of the hat, conservative social issues. Of course, Bush has done nothing about this for the first 4 years of his term, nor during the last two years, after having used the constitutional marriage amendement as a campaign issue this last time around. It's all such a phony ploy to placate the right wing of the party during a mid-term election year. And he and the congressional Pubs will throw out a few other conservative social issue bones to us in short order, to placate us for all of the other major issues, in particular illegal immigration, that they choose to push on an unwilling public. This makes me sick, as it is such obvious pandering, regardless of the value of the subject matter. And they do this, knowing the marriage amendment bill will never pass anyway. It's all so psychologically fraudulent.
My friends are my friends. We are old enough to be settled in our lives. For the time being, we're all in good health, though I suppose the natural aging process will take care of that soon enough.
It has nothing to do with a mythical "homosexual agenda." It has to do with a choice between liberty or statist tyranny, and it seems that too many on here choose the latter.
You seem obsessed with the details of gay sex, which is none of your business or the government's. Curious minds would like to know why you are so interested...
You seem obsessed with the details of gay sex, which is none of your business or the government's. Curious minds would like to know why you are so interested...
The lesbian sex thing is moderately interesting....though it does depend on what they look like.
####It has to do with a choice between liberty or statist tyranny, and it seems that too many on here choose the latter.####
What statist tyranny are you talking about?
Amen to that!
For a supposed fence straddler e.g. "Moderate" you seem to espouse the extremes to your advantage -in this case arguing for homosexual marriage being given judicially imposed hope...
LOL - DU beckons you back...
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