Senate Dems begin push to repeal federal marriage law

The Washington Times ^ | October 25, 2011 | Stephen Dinan

[jazusamo]

Senate Democrats next week will begin a push to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 law that defines marriage for federal purposes and, to date, has meant states don’t have to recognize gay marriages performed in other states.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat, said Tuesday his panel will take up the Respect for Marriage Act, sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein and co-sponsored by 30 other senators, all members of the Democratic caucus.

The issue is bound to face strong opposition from Republicans, who would likely have the votes to filibuster the legislation should it reach the Senate floor. And it’s unlikely to make it to the GOP-controlled House at all.

[jazusamo]

Republicans had better buck up on this.

[Elpasser]

Good Lord. Why filibuster this?

Let them have their vote and go on record.

It won’t get past the House anyhow.

[Buffalo Bob]

Welcome to the new, I say, New Butt Order (NBO)

[trollop]

More political theater crap.

[andy58-in-nh]

"The Respect for Marriage Act"

Positively Orwellian, isn't it?

[longtermmemmory]

This is about democrats raising money from the hollyweird and NE homosexuals.

They know it will not pass.

[jazusamo]

Absolutely. Sounds like the Rats and gays spent some time coming up with that.

[Siena Dreaming]

Now that Obama is known as a war President and takes huge amounts of cash from corporations, he doesn't have ANY other issue to try to jazz the left other than the gay issue.

An American President reduced to making his prime issue promoting perversity...ain't it grand?

[jazusamo]

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[longtermmemmory]

This is about democrats raising money from the hollyweird and NE homosexuals.

They know it will not pass. The democrats will try and amend it to some “must pass” bill and the RINOs will cave.

There needs to be a truth in labeling of bills law. This is the homosexual marriage act.

[rod1]

Yep. It is the RATs top priority in a desperate economic crisis.

[BlackElk]

The name should be changed to Rump Rangers Liberation Act for the sake of Truth in Advertising. This bill has absolutely nothing to do with respect for any relationship cognizable as marriage. Alternatively, if the filibuster should fail, add amendments to “respect ‘marriages’” between humans and “consenting” barnyard animals, “marriages between humans and space aliens, twelvesomes of humans or including other species as well. Sodom and Gomorrah, coming to a nation near you?

[Mortrey]

So many goals....So many accomplished....

http://www.communistgoals.com/goals/goals.htm

[andy58-in-nh]

Absolutely. Sounds like the Rats and gays spent some time coming up with that.

Propaganda comes naturally to those who lie for a living, and to those who are living a lie.

[Happy Rain]

A cloture vote is as good as any vote.
Anyone who votes to end a filibuster in order to bring a Homosexual Marriage bill (as the Republicans should always call it) up for debate has already gone on record as being FOR Homosexual Marriage.
This is just political lip service to shut up the radical homosexuals by the Democrat senators who believe they cannot be voted out--but they are soooo wrong.
The Homosexual radicals use PC terrorism to shut people up but in the privacy of the voting booth...this thing is never even getting as FAR as a filibuster;)

[fwdude]

It’ll never fly. Even many DemocRat senators know, deep down, the insanity of counterfeiting marriage.

[fwdude]

Let them have their vote and go on record.

It won’t get past the House anyhow.

This is my opinion on the matter: In the way of politics, incrementalism is the name of the game. Even allowing a vote will be a symbolic victory of sorts for the nihilistic Dems, and the staging area will be set for the next push. This is how our military was sodomized; allow a compromise in a failed push to implement the full thing, and you have your precedent for the next legislature.

I say, don't even allow this thing to get past this awful "committee." It is unconscionable to even consider such a thing. A vote isn't needed to get these sexual anarchists on record.

[fwdude]

There needs to be a truth in labeling of bills law. This is the homosexual marriage act.

Or how about just a slight modification: The DISrespect for Marriage Act.