The Marriage Amendment and Chafee in Rhode Island

National Review Online ^ | June 8, 2006 | Patrick Casey

[Paine's Ghost]

And I thank you for all your hard work. I, for one, am not so much interested in the individual homosexual. I am concerned about the threat to our schools, churches, kids and culture. That is why I take notice of this issue.

The old movie "Omega Man" keeps coming to mind.

[rvoitier]

This vote is very illustrative of how 100 loud-mouthed lesbians and queers trump the extremely vast majority opinion of a nation.

[MadIvan]

The Lady Ann said that Chaffee is so stupid that he doesn't realise he's a Democrat.

Difficult to top that particular insult.

Regards, Ivan

[Das Outsider]

This vote is very illustrative of how 100 loud-mouthed lesbians and queers trump the extremely vast majority opinion of a nation.

Alabama's marriage amendment just passed with a whopping eighty-one percent. The percentage for the nineteen other states averages between 2/3 and 3/4 of voters (the high being eighty-six, the low being fifty-nine).

Perhaps we can just blame it on Rush LimBOW and FOX News. No, wait, it's still Bush's fault.

[Das Outsider]

I refuse to believe that voting for Chafee, or any other RINO of such distinction, benefits the conservative movement. Yes, I shudder to think of Democrats holding the Senate, but as Miss Coulter said, Chafee may be so dumb that he doesn't realize he is a Democrat. Experience would tend to confirm this, would it not?

[So Cal Rocket]

If the Senate is 50-50 after the next election, and Chafee is re-elected, I fully expect him to pull a Jeffords and change parties... he has hinted about this in the past. He won't jump now because it doesn't work to his advantage.

Alternatively, if the Donks take over the White House in '08, and the Senate is 51 GOP and 49 Donk, Chafee will jump ship then, too.