Constitutional Amendment
Congressional Republicans have revived their culture wars strategy, by launching a new campaign to make inequality and bigotry part of our Constitution.
They’ve proposed a Constitutional amendment, which would prohibit states from recognizing same-sex marriages. An amendment, which requires two-thirds support in the Senate and the House, and then ratification by at least 38 states.
A Senate vote in 2004 fell far short of the two-thirds majority needed to amend the Constitution, Congressional Republicans are pushing for a ban on gay marriage to galvanize social conservatives in key swing states. Since, being re-elected Bush has been silent on this issue. Righteous conservatives are feeling abandoned by the Bush regime, and Republican leadership are suddenly eager to energize their based in an election year.
Log Cabin Republicans don't believe voters should be distracted from cutting taxes and controlling federal spending by embracing these kinds of socially extremist views. A veteran social conservative activist says voting on same sex marriage five months before an election looks insincere, and if they’re trying to placate social conservatives, by occasionally throwing them a bone it’s not going to work. He doesn’t believe that they really understand that social conservatives are dead serious and that they feel betrayed.
The Family Research Council claim GOP leaders must debate issues, like a gay marriage ban, if they want disillusioned conservatives to vote in November. They are not interested in reelecting a Republican to Congress if the candidate will not fight for their social agenda.
Senator John McCain believes that this is the wrong thing to do. He say that the true Republican position is to let states decide issues like this, not the federal government, and certainly not to amend the Constitution.
This could end up being counter productive politically for Republicans at a time where there are so many other pressing issues that need the attention of Congress, because it has no chance of succeeding. Most Congressional Republicans had sought to symbolically prove their point by demonstrating that a majority of the Senate, believe banning same-sex marriage is important. By putting gay marriage on the agenda, Republicans were diverting attention from the issues such as Iraq, high gas prices, the national debt, global warming, stem cell research and our country's trade imbalance.
In 2004, forty-eight Senators voted for the Constitutional amendment. On June 7, 2006, forty-nine Senators voted for an amendment to our Constitution, which would prohibit states from recognizing same-sex marriages.
They’ve proposed a Constitutional amendment, which would prohibit states from recognizing same-sex marriages. An amendment, which requires two-thirds support in the Senate and the House, and then ratification by at least 38 states.
A Senate vote in 2004 fell far short of the two-thirds majority needed to amend the Constitution, Congressional Republicans are pushing for a ban on gay marriage to galvanize social conservatives in key swing states. Since, being re-elected Bush has been silent on this issue. Righteous conservatives are feeling abandoned by the Bush regime, and Republican leadership are suddenly eager to energize their based in an election year.
Log Cabin Republicans don't believe voters should be distracted from cutting taxes and controlling federal spending by embracing these kinds of socially extremist views. A veteran social conservative activist says voting on same sex marriage five months before an election looks insincere, and if they’re trying to placate social conservatives, by occasionally throwing them a bone it’s not going to work. He doesn’t believe that they really understand that social conservatives are dead serious and that they feel betrayed.
The Family Research Council claim GOP leaders must debate issues, like a gay marriage ban, if they want disillusioned conservatives to vote in November. They are not interested in reelecting a Republican to Congress if the candidate will not fight for their social agenda.
Senator John McCain believes that this is the wrong thing to do. He say that the true Republican position is to let states decide issues like this, not the federal government, and certainly not to amend the Constitution.
This could end up being counter productive politically for Republicans at a time where there are so many other pressing issues that need the attention of Congress, because it has no chance of succeeding. Most Congressional Republicans had sought to symbolically prove their point by demonstrating that a majority of the Senate, believe banning same-sex marriage is important. By putting gay marriage on the agenda, Republicans were diverting attention from the issues such as Iraq, high gas prices, the national debt, global warming, stem cell research and our country's trade imbalance.
In 2004, forty-eight Senators voted for the Constitutional amendment. On June 7, 2006, forty-nine Senators voted for an amendment to our Constitution, which would prohibit states from recognizing same-sex marriages.
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