Jeff Nall, Online Journal
Republicans are reaching into the God, Guns and Country bag of tricks
once again to molest the most ignorant and prejudiced of American
minds. In an effort led by zealots on the religious right along with
Republicans desperate to survive President Bush's plunge at the polls,
House Republicans, fueled by their love of freedom, no doubt, are
poised to push the amendment to ban gay marriage to a vote the week of
July 17.
The effort comes just over a month after Senate Majority Leader Bill
Frist led a failed attempt to pass the amendment in June.
In an affront to the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution, H. J.
RES. 88 seeks to engrave discrimination and a prejudice for
Fundamentalist Christianity in the Constitution with these words:
'Section 2. Marriage in the United States shall consist only of
the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution, nor the
constitution of any State, shall be construed to require that marriage
or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than
the union of a man and a woman.'
The Federal Marriage Amendment, which, if passed, would be called the
'Marriage Protection Amendment,' was first introduced in 2002 by Rep.
Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO) and Sen. Wayne Allard (R-CO) and again in 2004
when it was defeated in the House and the Senate.
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