Gay Marriage fight goes to the GA House | Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Marriage fight goes to the House

By CARLOS CAMPOS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/23/04

At least half of the House committee expected to take up the anti-gay marriage measure this week say they would vote for the proposed constitutional amendment.

But while Senate Resolution 595 likely will get to the floor of the state House, it may be so weighted down by amendments that it could doom the proposal.

Fifteen of the House Rules Committee's 30 members told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution last week that they would vote to send the resolution to the House, while only three would vote against it.

A two-thirds majority is required to pass the full House or Senate, but committee approval is a simple majority.

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[David__77]

1. Amending it is the way to kill it.

In CA, the GOP was proposing "denfense of marriage" bills in 1995-1997. Each time, Democrats added domestic partnership benefits to it in the senate, and the GOP promptly killed the bill, angrily. Funny thing is that now we have domestic partnership way beyond what was contained in those amendments, but that had to wait until 1999.