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U.S. Senate votes down Marrage Amendment: More No votes than last time |
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Magnum Serpentine
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06-07-2006 08:09
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Reitsuki Kojima
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06-07-2006 08:12
Actually, the artical says there were more yes votes than last time. _____________________
I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us.
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Magnum Serpentine
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06-07-2006 08:21
Actually, the artical says there were more yes votes than last time. lovely typo at least I provided the source. Fixing Typo now |
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Reitsuki Kojima
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06-07-2006 08:25
lovely typo at least I provided the source. Fixing Typo now That's what we call a "mistake", not a "typo"... A typo would have been fixed to "more yes votes than before", not just deleted.  _____________________
I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us.
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Katlin Aridian
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06-07-2006 08:42
“The Republican leadership is asking us to spend time writing bigotry into the Constitution,” said Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, whose state legalized gay marriage in 2003. “A vote for it is a vote against civil unions, against domestic partnership, against all other efforts for states to treat gays and lesbians fairly under the law.”
Hatch responded: “Does he really want to suggest that over half of the United States Senate is a crew of bigots?” My Cheerwine is now all over the monitor. |
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Katlin Aridian
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06-07-2006 08:43
“The Republican leadership is asking us to spend time writing bigotry into the Constitution,” said Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, whose state legalized gay marriage in 2003. “A vote for it is a vote against civil unions, against domestic partnership, against all other efforts for states to treat gays and lesbians fairly under the law.”
Hatch responded: “Does he really want to suggest that over half of the United States Senate is a crew of bigots?” My Cheerwine is now all over the monitor. |
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Rasah Tigereye
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06-07-2006 08:46
HOORAY!!!... for wasting everyone's time and money with this load of BS  *synicism* |
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Rasah Tigereye
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06-07-2006 08:47
My Cheerwine is now all over the monitor. I liked your "why yes, he does" a lot more  |
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Jopsy Pendragon
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06-07-2006 08:52
Protect marriage.
Make divorce a felony. |
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Vares Solvang
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06-07-2006 08:57
The really sad thing about this is that they knew going in that it never had a chance. It's next to impossible to amend the US constitution and all those Senators know that. The entire amendment attempt was nothing more than political grandstanding. Republicans are loosing their support base, so they wasted time and money on this solely for political gain.
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Ananda Sandgrain
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06-07-2006 08:58
Thankfully they didn't waste weeks and weeks on it this time.
But the parties now have the ammunition, right? We can all expect ads saying, "OMG, your Senator votes for bigotry!" or "OMG, your Senator doesn't believe children should have a mother and a father!" _____________________
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Katlin Aridian
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06-07-2006 09:05
Snicker, Rasah. "Amended" 'cause it was statin' the obvious.
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Vares Solvang
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06-07-2006 09:23
Don't you just love it when two different threads synergize?
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Katlin Aridian
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06-07-2006 09:27
Ananda, I can see them already.
Ad One: Shots of a poor obese black child in a wheelchair glancing weepily up at the camera, pitifully turning his wheels in the alley, while Hector Elizondo solemnly intones: "Senator Dumasse voted against gay marriage. What will he vote against next?" Ad Two: Happy, well-dressed white kids cavorting on the playground while their smiling, carefully groomed mothers look on, juxtaposed with a scene of uber-queens reading magazines and filing their nails while their little boys tussle under the jungle gym. A prim, middle-aged female voice asks: "Which scene would you rather see when you go to the park? Senator Dumasse voted to protect marriage. Vote Dumasse in 2006." |
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Turbo Hand
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06-07-2006 14:18
“My position on this issue is clear; marriage is the most fundamental institution of our society, and it should not be redefined by activist judges. The people must be heard on this issue,” the statement continued.
I wonder how Mr. Bush feels about the activist decision in Loving v. Virginia. |