Gay Marriage Ban Amendment Rejected

[ladiva]

Washington (AP) - The House on Tuesday rejected a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, ending for another year a congressional debate that supporters of the ban hope will still reverberate in this fall's election. The 236-187 vote for the proposal to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman was 47 short of the two-thirds majority needed to advance a constitutional amendment. It followed six weeks after the Senate also decisively defeated the amendment, a top priority of social conservatives.

Full story:
http://beta.abc3340.com/news/stories/0706/345490.html

[trezhamayn]

I have a pretty good idea, based on what I've come across so far, but just to make sure, I would like to find out...are you opposed to gay marriage? why or why not? i'd like to have a little discussion on the subject

[trezhamayn]

by the way, i meant you as in you the reader, not you ladiva

[mmcd3182]

by the way, i meant you as in you the reader, not you ladiva

It's all been done before... pages and pages and pages of reading.

You can start here...
http://demopolislive.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8024&highlight=gay+marriage+ban

and then when you get to page 11... you're done and see what you think.

[bamaraised]

I have a pretty good idea, based on what I've come across so far, but just to make sure, I would like to find out...are you opposed to gay marriage? why or why not? i'd like to have a little discussion on the subject


YES! I am opposed to gay marrige. God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve!

[mmcd3182]

YES! I am opposed to gay marrige. God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve!

So we are really doing this discussion again? I don't think anyone has changed their opinion since last time...

[bamaraised]

So we are really doing this discussion again? I don't think anyone has changed their opinion since last time...

LOL. NOPE.

[trezhamayn]

WOW, i think i spent a full hour reading that whole thing, now i'm tired and i'll talk about it tomorrow

[ladiva]

It's all been done before... pages and pages and pages of reading.

You can start here...
http://demopolislive.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8024&highlight=gay+marriage+ban

and then when you get to page 11... you're done and see what you think.

I was only giving an update since it was rejected Tuesday.

[BronzeDragoness]

I have a pretty good idea, based on what I've come across so far, but just to make sure, I would like to find out...are you opposed to gay marriage? why or why not? i'd like to have a little discussion on the subject


I'm not opposed to gay marriage. I feel that two people in love, no matter the sex, should be allowed to be happy and be married like any other couple in the USA. I have always stated this, and I will not change it now. My opinions are in the other thread.

[mmcd3182]

I was only giving an update since it was rejected Tuesday.

yeah ... I was talking to trezhamayn ... when he asked everyone's opinions on it... that's why I directed him to those OTHER 11 pages...

thanks for the update. they were pretty sure that it wasn't going to pass... then it didn't pass in the Senate and now it didnt' pass in the House... so even though Shelby sent me a letter in reply saying that he was voting for it, he wasn't on the winning side on this issue.

I think we did it the right way -- the people in Alabama voted for it and decided what we wanted for OUR state... and I think other people in other states should be given that same right.

and my opinion hasn't changed... I don't think they should make it illegal for any human couple to get married based on sex or race or whatever. Just doesn't seem fair.