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.

[Recovering_Democrat]

I think a Republican from Florida is sponsoring this crap in the House: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.

Can anyone on the Florida ping list confirm?

[Arrowhead1952]

trollop
Since Oct 25, 2011

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Welcome to FR. Interesting screen name. troll operation??

[444Flyer]

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

That's what the Lord says in His Word.

They are doing their best to help Satan defile mankind with perversions and blasphemy against the Lord God Almighty's creation and order of creation.

No surprise they will be attacking traditional God- ordained, one man + one woman marriage, and this just shortly after they allowed the homosexuals to have their way with our military structure.

If this nation sows to perversion and defiles itself in that manner, it will reap the after effects. Of course that is all unimportant and mere superstition to the Communists polluting our culture for their gain. They too, will reap what they have sown in the end. Their state and their twisted ideology is their god. Traditional families are a threat to what they are attempting to create. Government as the new (false) god. Therefore, they will try to destroy marriage and the family as they would any adversary getting in the way of their plans.

[Dilbert San Diego]

See how far we have come in the last 15 years.

The Defense of Marriage Act passed in the Senate by 85 to 14 in 1996. It got well over 300 votes in the 435 member House of Reps. that year.

Good liberals such as Tom Harkin, Joe Lieberman, and Chuck Schumer voted for the Defense of Marriage Act.

Here we are, 15 years later, and this law is now hated by the liberals. And the culture has shifted somewhat in accepting homosexual marriage. Homosexual marriage has been forced on a few states by court order, and passed by state legislatures in a few others.

15 years ago, the definition of marriage was not at all controversial. Who would have predicted then that how we define marriage would become a hot culture war issue? Who would have predicted that news stories about marriage would all describe it as “controversial” or “bigoted” if you prefer to define marriage as a man and a woman????

The least controversial issue of 1996, how we define marriage, is now a liberal cause celebre. And now that the liberals have their beach head in a few states, lawsuits to force homosexual marriage on all 50 states, or to force the federal government to recognize same from those states which allow it, will be in court for many years.

[fwdude]

Good synopsis on our decent into moral anarchy. Keep in mind that the liberals' attack on marriage is just one prong of a wider attack on our entire culture - our Judeo/Christian culture. And it is an attack with many fronts, not just the courts and legislatures. The cultural attack has been ongoing for decades with the push to legitimize and desensitize aversion to homosexuality through entertainment media. I remember innocently inadvertently seeing Victor/Victoria as a young teen (I thought James Garner was cool) and thinking that the worldview depicted in the film was so outrageous and beyond the realm of reality that I could afford to never give it much legitimacy in its threatened implications. I now see it as the blatant propaganda piece that it was and is.

The churches are another major spearhead for the sodomites. Infiltrating, infecting and completely overturning the entire belief systems of, first, the most liberal, apostate Christian sects, and then attempting the same with the more fundamentalist groups. It would never have entered my mind as remotely possible that a Southern Baptist Church would fall for this strong delusion, but at least two have, to the extent that they were disfellowshipped.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks jazusamo.

a push to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act