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
