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06/29/2003 Archived Entry: "Gay Marriages"

Top Senator Backs Amendment Banning Gay Marriage
The Republican leader of the U.S. Senate said on Sunday he
supported a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage.

Frist backs constitutional ban on gay marriage
Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo., was the main sponsor of the proposal offered
May 21 to amend the Constitution. It was referred to the House Judiciary
subcommittee on the Constitution on Wednesday, the day before the high court ruled.

As drafted, the proposal says:

"Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman.
Neither this Constitution nor the constitution of any state under state or federal
law shall be construed to require that marital status or the legal incidents thereof
be conferred upon unmarried couples or groups."

To be added to the Constitution, the proposal must be approved by two-thirds of
the House and the Senate and ratified by three-fourths of the states.

I really hope republican try to push this one. They will show just what kind of
homophobic backwards christian fundies they are.