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House panel votes to ban same-sex marriages on US military bases
Fox News.com ^
| May 10, 2012
Posted on 05/10/2012 7:01:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
WASHINGTON On the same day that President Barack Obama declared his support for same-sex marriage, the House Armed Services Committee backed measures prohibiting the practice on U.S. military bases.
The panel stepped into the gays in the military issue as it considered a sweeping, $642 billion defense bill for next year that buys new weapons, ships and aircraft, increases military pay by 1.7 percent and sets policies for the Pentagon. The committee worked through the day Wednesday and into the early morning Thursday on the legislation that adds billions of dollars to the president's budget request.
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posted on
05/10/2012 7:01:37 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
good, since there can be no such thing as a homosexual “marriage”
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posted on
05/10/2012 7:02:44 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
( My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: Kaslin
Just keeping the government out of the bedroom — like we ALL seem to only want when we have a Republican president.
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posted on
05/10/2012 7:04:01 AM PDT
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: Kaslin
It just bans the ceremonies there, not SS married from being on base.
What about housing on military base that is specifically for families? Now that would hurt (them).
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posted on
05/10/2012 7:40:48 AM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(Romney is a liberal. Just watch him closely try to screw us.)
To: Kaslin
No big deal - EVEN IF this were to reach the oval office, Zero will just issue a signing statement stating that he has determined this provision to unconstitutional. Remember the prohibition on funding Czars? What did the GOP do about that signing statement? chirp, chirp
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posted on
05/10/2012 7:57:39 AM PDT
by
Cheerio
(Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
To: Kaslin
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posted on
05/10/2012 8:17:48 AM PDT
by
pfflier
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posted on
05/10/2012 9:18:39 AM PDT
by
RedMDer
(https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93)
To: sickoflibs
I’m sure the chaplains are relieved!
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posted on
05/10/2012 9:27:41 AM PDT
by
Nickname
To: sickoflibs
“It just bans the ceremonies there, not SS married from being on base.”
Yep
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posted on
05/10/2012 12:44:10 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
To: Kaslin
Good.... better than nothing.
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