I'm glad to see this amendment killed, there was no reason for it.
This was and will be an ongoing attempt by the GOP to create another hot-button issue running into this Novembers elections.
The quotes from the winner and losers on this vote below..
"This is a partisan effort by Republicans to divide the American people rather than forge consensus to solve our urgent problems," said Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California.
Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., one of just a few openly gay members of Congress, said he took the proposal personally. "I think this is motivated, frankly, by a dislike of those of us who are gay and lesbian," he said, and he objected to "people taking batting practice with my life."
Bush has advocated, and the Republican Party's conservative base has demanded, that the ban be extended to the federal level. "The administration believes that the future of marriage in America should be decided through the democratic constitutional amendment process, rather than by the court orders of a few," the White House said in a statement.
Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., the leader of House conservatives, argued that the vote was a "successful failure."
"We poured a little more concrete in the footings of a building that will be built," Pence said.
"They have now failed twice in their shameful election-year ploys, using gay and lesbian families as punching bags," said Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay rights group. "We didn't see any traction" in Tuesday's vote, he said.
Boy, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid was right, this truly is a do-nothing Congress.
War in Lebanon getting ready to spur World War 3, high gas prices or even the War in Iraq, what are we wasting our time on, pandering to the fundy base of the Republican Party.
What a waste!
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