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Defense of Marriage (a.k.a. Distraction from Real Problems)

By jlynch on June 7, 2006.

Yesterday, the Vatican named gay marriage as one of the factors threatening the traditional family as never before.

Today, supporters of a marriage amendment could not even get together enough votes to actually get to vote on the amendment, falling eleven votes short. Seven Republicans voted to kill the amendment: Lincoln Chafee (RI), Susan Collins (ME), Judd Gregg (NH), John McCain (AZ), Olympia Snowe (ME), Arlen Specter (PA) and John Sununu (NH).

John Stewart - in tackling Bill Bennett - says it best:

Stewart: So why not encourage gay people to join in in that family arrangement if that is what provides stability to a society?

Bennett: Well I think if gay..gay people are already members of families...

S: What? (almost spitting out his drink)

B: They're sons and they're daughters..

S: So that's where the buck stops, that's the gay ceiling.

B: Look, it's a debate about whether you think marriage is between a man and a women.

S: I disagree, I think it's a debate about whether you think gay people are part of the human condition or just a random fetish.

Sam Brownback tells us "We're not going to stop until marriage between a man and a woman is protected" and that this will go to a vote again next month. Why, oh why, are people we are paying, wasting time on this when there are more important issues:

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Dammit, where do these people learn to talk in soundbites like that? Is there some sort of distance course you can sign up for?