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