The votes are in
The Senate vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment is expected to fall short of the two-thirds majority required to pass. They are going to vote on it anyway.
If the vote were taken among newspaper editorial pages, it wouldn't have a prayer. The consensus of opinion there is not so much pro or con gay marriage so much as what is referred to as "posturing," "shameless posturing" and, pulling out all the stops, "shameless political posturing."
At least that's what one gleans from:
The Dallas Morning News
The Pensacola (FL) News Journal
The Clarksville (TN) Leaf Chronicle
The Waco (TX) Tribune-Herald
The Boston Herald
The Louisville Courier-Journal
The Denver Post
and, my personal favorite, The Boston Globe, which headlines its editorial: "Gay marriage? So what?"
Given that same-sex marriage has been legal there for nearly three years, and the state has not yet sunk into the bay, they oughta know.
(I had a few more of these -- Trenton, N.J.; Huntsville, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn. -- but the links had problems or there were too many registration hoops to jump through.)
-- Posted by George Pyle
If the vote were taken among newspaper editorial pages, it wouldn't have a prayer. The consensus of opinion there is not so much pro or con gay marriage so much as what is referred to as "posturing," "shameless posturing" and, pulling out all the stops, "shameless political posturing."
At least that's what one gleans from:
The Dallas Morning News
The Pensacola (FL) News Journal
The Clarksville (TN) Leaf Chronicle
The Waco (TX) Tribune-Herald
The Boston Herald
The Louisville Courier-Journal
The Denver Post
and, my personal favorite, The Boston Globe, which headlines its editorial: "Gay marriage? So what?"
Given that same-sex marriage has been legal there for nearly three years, and the state has not yet sunk into the bay, they oughta know.
(I had a few more of these -- Trenton, N.J.; Huntsville, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn. -- but the links had problems or there were too many registration hoops to jump through.)
-- Posted by George Pyle
2 Comments:
It would appear this vote had nothing to with gays or with marriage. This vote seem to be part of a plan for Republicans to maintain control of congress. In order to maintain control of congress, Republicans need to get out their vote, and gay marriage is one issue that is important to a small group of Republicans.
Another important issue to the Republican base is illegal immigration. It doesn't really matter if Republican candidates support or oppose the president, just as long as Republican voters turn out and vote Republican. There is no more potent issue to energize the Republican base than immigration.
And as long as the media is talking about gay marriage and illegal immigration, and not talking about Iraq, it's good for the president and the Republican party.
The next big issue? Flag burning.
Again, it's not important what is thought about flag burning, just as long you're talking and writing about it and not about Iraq.
Is this Karl Rove's strategy? Will Rove's strategy work this November?
Any type of ammendment that is discriminatory to one group is wrong. We are a nation of equal rights - at least we used to be - and that includes people of the gay persuasion.
I don't think that anyone is a Christian if they choose to deny rights to another group.
It is too bad that so many people are led by fear rather than logial thinking. If they bothered to think this through they would realize that two people of the same sex getting married won't destroy their marriage, unless it was on shaky ground to begin with.
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