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July 13, 2004
Yesterday's attempt by Senate Republicans to ignite a public debate over whether America should welcome their discriminatory efforts to alter the U.S. Constitution is in "disarray." Republicans had to filibuster their own proposed amendment when it appeared 12 Republicans would bolt. Now they are scrambling to avoid their own scheduled vote.
Bigotry just ain't as easy as it used to be, thanks to people standing up for higher principles. Ironically, the core argument being made by a vocal minority of Republicans in the debate over equal marriage rights is that the right of states to decide this issue is being swept away by "judicial activists." Republicans conveniently ignore "judicial activists" also forced states to live up to our nation's higher laws by integrating public schools (Brown v. Board of Education) and allowing blacks and whites to marry (Loving v. Virginia).
We don't hear these radical conservatives today daring to deride those "judicial activists" in the exact same manner they do today. I wonder why? After all, the same concerns for the welfare of America's children were raised then, as well as concerns for the moral fabric of society. It almost sounds silly looking back through the discerning lense of history.
The arguments of conservatives over amending the United States Constitution to ban equal marriage rights are equally bankrupt of morality and reason, and history will forever remember those who stood for scurrilous attacks on American principles of fairness.
GOP senators in disarray over gay marriage
San Francisco Chronicle
GOP split on marriage proposals
By Amy Fagan
WASHINGTON TIMES
Senate Republicans Split on Wording Gay-Marriage Ban
By CARL HULSE
New York Times
Senators balk on gay-marriage amendment
By JOSHUA L. WEINSTEIN
Portland Press Herald
Few attend gay marriage debate
By Susan Milligan
Boston Globe
GOP May Revise Marriage Amendment
By Helen Dewar and Alan Cooperman
Washington Post
U.S. Senate to vote on federal marriage amendment Wednesday
The Leader-Chicago
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