Posted on 07/12/2004 10:26:34 AM PDT by abnegation
And so it begins.....
Going on record is very powerful. It is one thing that the 2 Johns cannot deny today.
I remember during the hearings on illegal campaign contributions / nuclear secrets / Chinese connections that person after person sent a note from their lawyers saying that they would invoke their fifth amendment rights not to testify. The stupid Republicans must have valued a long lunch over the powerful video and pictures of all those people taking the fifth. They should have made every one of them come to the Senate and personally state their refusal to testify. I think that more than 50 fled the country in addition to the dozens who pleaded the fifth. Most people in the country do not even know about those entire, close to treasonous, events. Pictures get through to people.
Nearly a decade after 86 Senators voted for the Defense Of Marriage Act, it can't pass? I'll be happy if it gets a majority as it ought. If it doesn't it says more about our politicians than it does about where the American people stand.
The vast majority of the country thought it was right that blacks and whites be segregated in the 1950s.
So by your logic, we should have maintained Jim Crow laws.
For someone who views this as "crap" and a "waste of time" you sure are weighing in on it. Perhaps your time would be better served to go to a thread at DU where they are discussing "WOT, the economy and health care".
Already preparing to make both of WV's RAT Senator's pay for their certain votes against this eminently sensible and necessary Amendment.
Bravo.
Feinstein is next. Sigh.
The real problem is precisely the one you allude. It isn't about what gay people do. Its the fact that from the Left, marriage and the family have been weakened to the point where it makes more sense to live together than to be married. Gays and lesbians have rights too but the right to redefine the meaning of marriage for the rest of society isn't among them.
So, if it can't pass then forget doing it?
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt
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Marriage has nothing to do with racism and you know it.
Your equation of sexual deviancy with skin color is offensive to thinking people of color.
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Most of the souls in the Congress are timid people who run for cover in the tall grass rather than take a stand on the great issues of the day.
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AKA Spineless bestids.
Nah, it would simply be false.
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