Victory! Federal gay marriage amendment defeated - again
Even in a Republican-controlled House of Representatives, a proposed amendment to the Constitution that would have placed a national ban on gay marriage was emphatically defeated. The vote of 227-186 fell far short of the two-thirds needed for approval on a measure that President Bush backed and the Senate had previously rejected. Even with Rep. Roscoe Bartlett sharing trite lines about Adam and Steve and the GOP forcing a vote earlier this week protecting the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance from court challenge, the gay marriage amendment generated dissent even among Republicans.
MSNBC
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