Senate cuts off debate on a constitutional ban on gay marriage, defeating it for now. Good. Maybe they'll get some work done. Regardless of where you stand on gay marriage, many senators (including John McCain) recognise that there just isn't the support out there for a full-blown amendment to our Constitution over it.
Obviously, I am for gay marriage. It bothers me that an amendment is being considered specifically countered against a group, primarily to detract from bigger issues during an election year, when many of the amendments have traditional expanded the rights of citizens, rather than close them (Prohibition is the only one of the latter I can think of at the moment, and it was eventually overturned).
It's a long road to getting an amendment through, thankfully. We learned that with the Equal Rights Amendment, which never quite got enough states to put it into the Constitution. I will say that if a ban on gay marriage ever makes it through the whole process but the ERA couldn't, then I may really have to consider moving to Canada, because my faith in the average American and the system is going to be shot to hell.
| Unshelved | by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum |
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