The Amendment failed
Jul. 14th, 2004 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mojocattWell it got shot down. Took them three days to do it, three days I consider wasted time. NPR listed all the other bills waiting for attention, and all of them are more important than writing discrimination into the federal constitution.
It failed 48-50....48 senators lined up to support the one and only amendment that would prohibit a group of people, as opposed to giving a new freedom. Forty eight, they needed 2/3 to do it, but 48 is still waaaaaay too many. 48 senators favor putting a pen to the constitution and adding homophobia as a law. Gives you a real clear picture of how far to the right our government is leaning, and it is scary.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/14/samesex.marriage/index.html
It failed 48-50....48 senators lined up to support the one and only amendment that would prohibit a group of people, as opposed to giving a new freedom. Forty eight, they needed 2/3 to do it, but 48 is still waaaaaay too many. 48 senators favor putting a pen to the constitution and adding homophobia as a law. Gives you a real clear picture of how far to the right our government is leaning, and it is scary.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/14/samesex.marriage/index.html
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Date: 2004-07-14 01:52 pm (UTC)This was NOT a vote for the amendment. It was a procedural vote that would, if passed, allowed the senate to vote on the amendment.
Basically, the republicans couldn't get the bill out of committee so they proposed a vote that would have forced it to the senate floor. (They also need a 2/3rds majority to do that.)
That is the vote that failed. Academic I know. I just hate when things like that get glossed over. (I still can't stand when people say things like Monica-gate. Unless an old hotel in D.C. chnaged it's name then THERE IS NO FUCKING SUCH THING AS A MONICA-GATE!!!)
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Date: 2004-07-14 02:14 pm (UTC)My point is that 48 senators were in favor of the amendment. Half of the senate!
I'm not specifying where it got killed, just that it got killed and that 48 senators is too many to even be considering bringing this load of wacko right wing crap to the senate floor let alone amend it to the constitution.
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Date: 2004-07-14 02:24 pm (UTC)Anger I have... yes.
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Date: 2004-07-15 06:06 am (UTC)Something this crazy should have died outright in committee.
All you politicians are on notice!!
Date: 2004-07-14 03:14 pm (UTC)Re: All you politicians are on notice!!
Date: 2004-07-15 05:12 am (UTC)Virtually no incumbent has ever gotten my vote. I hate career politicians more than athlete's foot and jock itch combined.
Re: All you politicians are on notice!!
Date: 2004-07-15 06:08 am (UTC)Well, we already know the Minnesota senator who voted in favor of bringing the amendment to the senate floor.