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Old 11-07-2004, 23:12   #33
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Well, the United States Senate has begun discussions over the proposed Consitutional amendment to effectively ban same-sex marriage. They could reach a conclusion as soon as Wednesday.

Thankfully, it is quite hard to pass a Consitutional amendment. First it has to pass both the Senate and House of Reps. by a 2/3rds majority. Then it has to be ratified by 3/4ths of the States.

This should really be left up to the States however. Marriage is a state or even a county or city issue. The federal government has no business whatsoever with anything to do with marriage. But the reason they are probably doing this is that federal law currently says that States have to uphold and respect other States laws, if the State(s) in question don't have the same law. Meaning that all 49 other states currently have to recognize same sex marriages done in the state of Massachusetts, whether they want to or not - and of course they don't like this.

And I found Homo Prevention (this is a joke made by a website that makes fun of right-wing Christians )
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