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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The exception, outrageous and baseless, is Pat Buchanan. A segment of fundamentalists and other neocons are particularly hostile toward any praise of him. A very rotten segment... irreverently naive, analytically inept, and sexually... I will stop there.
Very common up until the early 80s. You probably wouldn't hear of it unless it happened in your family, like wife beating, etc. Probably the most famous case of it is Little Richard -- his father tied him to the bed and tried to whip it out of him.
The issue is homosexual marriage. If you wish to accuse conservatives such as myself with hate mongering I would suggest you do it on a forum that caters to such leftist "critical thinking" argumentative ploys...
It is very much about government behavior when judges take it upon themselves to reverse the will of the people.
Stop it! Stop making sense! Stop it at once!
How old are you?
How simplistic. No, you will just be required to recognize and honor the "marriage" of two guys who want to rent your garage apartment; who want to teach your children that their union is no different than a traditional one and just as wholesome; that sex ed will be mandatorily taught with more than just a cucumber and a condom; that should you and yours die without a caretaker designated for your child, a homosexual will have a fair shot at obtaining him; that the next frontier of a "maturing society" will involve not just two, but three, four, etc. with all the above mentioned imposed on your life and your children's. Happy?
So, how long have you known the Clintons?
When did homosexuals ever have the right to get married?
On that topic, one place where one's personal choice to discriminate still prevails is indeed our own private sex lives.
Depending where you live, saying "I don't date blacks/whites/asians" can elicit different reactions... Are you a racist? Are you "not attracted" to them? Why?
Look for the day when you are charged with bigotry, if only in social opinion, for refusing to date homosexuals.
Exactly right. You can't have a marriage without a husband and wife...and two people of the same sex can't fulfill those roles.
Good Posting!
Hey, where'd the libertarians go?
Here's a better solution. Let's leave the word marriage alone. The guy's old man beats the crap out of him, there are two solutions. Get tougher and beat the crap out of the old man or call the cops and then make your own way in the world after you testify at his trial.
So, has the amendment passed yet? The suspense is killing me.
Where have you been? Not only was Terry Schaivo allowed to die, she was actively deprived of food and water. Tell me, what makes Terry less important than an AIDS sufferer?
Sorry for the snideness. I don't like John McCain.
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