Senate Votes on Gay Marriage Ban This Week/ 60% emails so far support!

[icymist]

Senate Votes on Gay Marriage Ban This Week

The Senate begins debate Monday on an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to prohibit gay marriage. It requires 67 votes in order to be sent to the States for possible ratification. Congress.org offers you several resources to participate in the nation's debate over this issue:

-- Read the full text of the admendment
-- Compose and send a message to your Senators. 3800 messages have been sent so far.
60 percent said support the gay marriage ban amendment
40 percent said oppose the gay marriage ban admendment.

-- Share your message by posting it in Letters to Leaders.
-- After the vote, see how your Senators voted in Key Votes or by our weekly email vote monitor.
-- Read opinions of others in The Soapbox or Letters to Leaders. Add your views to the mix on Congress.org.

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I'll bother with no other links to this site, but you can navigate it from these. Let's make this one Hell of a lot closer than 60/40!!!

[longship]

1. The question is *not* the absolute % of support

The question is the % of support by state. I cannot believe that 60% of the states will support this, let alone the 2/3 required to pass it.

[icymist]

3. Still, we all should 'nip it in the bud' right here.

This kind of BS has got to stop.

[badgerpup]

2. My Congresscritters are split down the party line (Big surprise...NOT!)

Have already emailed both senators and the rep...
Burns is going to 'protect the institution of marriage'.:eyes:
Rehberg is apparently going to follow the party line like a good little 'droid. :grr:
Baucus is voting NO. :applause:

I wish I knew that contacting these blivots did some good...
:banghead:

[icymist]

5. It says you at least tried, and besides, if enough respond, it CAN make

it CAN make a difference. Especially if that Senator or Congresscritter were running for re-election.

[karlrschneider]

4. Thanks for the reminder

:kick:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. Here's mine!

When was the last time we amended our Constitution to take away rights of American citizens instead of assuring them?

Marriage is a Religious concept, it always has been. Inserting this into the Constitution will decimate the already fragile separation of Church and State.

Vote NO!

XXXXX XXXXXX
Portland, OR

[johnnie]

7. I don't care if it is 99% support

It is unconstitutional and just plain fucking wrong. If these people that want to change the constitution and ban citizens from certain things that other citizens have don't like what the founding fathers of this country wanted and hundreds of thousands have shed their blood for, they can pack their sorry asses and get the fuck out of the country. :)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

8. Interesting. There is a poll on AOL about same sex marriage and

it is the opposite. When you add the Don't cares in with support you get 61% for.
http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060603101509990022&cid=2194

What's your view on same-sex marriage?
I support it 44%
I oppose it 40%
Don't care 17%
Total Votes: 95,744

[Viva_La_Revolution]

9. Capital News poll of the day...

Do you support, or oppose a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage?
Support
25%
Oppose
75%
Total Votes: 970

http://www.capitalnews.org/

[Roland99]

10. Here's the text of the message I sent >>>>>>>>

I find it VERY hard to believe that one of the most pressing issues in our nation is to ban marriage (a commitment of love between two people REGARDLESS of race, sex, or creed) for a very small percentage (~3%) of our population.

I find it quite sickening that in the 21st century, the US Gov't is set to create a SUB-CLASS of American citizens.

In the face of debilitating deficits, unjustified invasions, warmonger rhetoric about more wars, REAL unemployment near 9%, REAL inflation near 12% (go read John Williams, economist), gas prices DOUBLE and oil prices TRIPLE what they were when this administration took office, this is what the US Congress is proposing? Creating an Amendment to the US Constitution to RESTRICT LIBERTY??

The last time that happened was Prohibition. How well did that work? Hmmm?

Stop wasting your time and my money on this crap that panders to the extreme 3% - the radical clerics of the pseudo-Christian right.

[w8liftinglady]

12. lol..you need to read the comments on the right hand side..priceless

here's one

You're Debating Gay Marriage? What a Bunch of Idiots!
To all you twits who're getting fooled yet once again

To conquer, we must first divide...

I cannot believe that any of those who post here are actually debating the so-called Marriage Protection Ammendment to the Constitution.

The fact that some people are actually taking this alleged issue seriously proves just how gullible Americans can be. You are all being played exactly the way this administration and many members of Congress are hoping. They're hoping you'll be the hopeless fools you are. And you are!

I don't care what side of this issue you're on. If you're actually debating this for fear such a Constitutional Ammendment will or won't become the law of the land, you are an idiot!

If you're screaming "Ban Gay Marriage," you're an idiot. If you're screaming "Support Gay Marriage," you're equally an idiot!

An ammendment to our constitution defining marriage in any way shape or form will never become law - NEVER! Why? BECAUSE IT'S A CONSTITUTIONAL AMMENDMENT you mindless, uneducated, ignorant sheep! KNOW THE DAMN LAW!

This is not a "bill" we're talking about. It's a proposed ammendment to the highest law in the land. Know what it'll take to become law? If you did, you wouldn't be getting snowed by our government. Instead, you'd be concentrating on issues the government DOESN'T want you to debate. Yeah! They got you doing the same thing they succeeded in doing in 2000 and 2004.

For an ammendment to be added to the US Constitution, it requires first a 2/3 Vote in BOTH chambers of Congress, followed by Ratification by 3/4 of the State legislatures.

PEOPLE! That will never happen. It takes YEARS for an ammendment to be ratified, especially one on a volatile issue like this one. You think the Republicans and Democrats currently in office don't know that? Of course they do you wankers!

We've got so many very very REAL issues and problems in this country people that we can fix and change - but only if we don't get distracted the way those running for office in 2006/08 want.

They want us to be divided and at each other's throats. They'll use this so-called wedge issue to distract us throughout their campaigns, just like they've done so many times before. Our only hope is to not get tricked again.

Let's get back to debating REAL potential laws that are on the floor of Congress RIGHT NOW! Let's show Congress that we're not buying into their divide-the-people-on-social-issues game that they play at every election.

Come on folks, how about:

Government Corruption
The Erosion of Our Bill of Rights
Campaign Finance Reform
Lobbyist & Special Interest Reform
Illegal Alien Problems
Falsified Rising Unemployment Figures
45% Loss of Manufacturing Jobs
Increasing Outsourcing of Our Jobs
High Gasoline Prices
Declining Public School Education
High Health Care Costs
Tax Cuts for the Rich
An Out of Control Fiscal Budget
Rising Health Care Costs
A National Debt Approaching 9 Trillion Dollars
A Billion Dollar-a-Day War in Iraq
An Increasingly Totalitarian Government

These are issues that affect ALL OF US. They should be THE ONLY concerns we should be addressing right now. You need to pull together and show our elected officials that you're not falling for their silly games anymore.

You can all be silly, mindless, ignorant little sheep and do exactly what your government wants you to do. Go ahead, argue about so-called laws that will never come to pass while those in power destroy ou

[Roland99]

14. I think that person missed the entire point.

The point is that Congress is WASTING time debating this issue. It's time for Congress to drop this and then for the nation to drop it, too.

[w8liftinglady]

11. mine

I honestly can not believe you are wasting what precious time you have in session on this obvious pandering to your base.I am SO disgusted with every one of my elected officials!We are at WAR,and our boys are getting killed.I am broke all the time,even though I am a professional.Gas prices...well,everything..are out the roof.Global warming is threatening to destroy our world.Our Borders are being sold out to the highest bidder.There is so much corruption within YOUR ranks.I feel you do not represent me or my STRAIGHT family.

[Mr_Spock]

13. It's 50 - 50 now

I called them a bunch of bigot ass holes.

[unpossibles]

15. my letter

 I cannot believe this is even an issue. Not only is it insulting on a Constitutionally legal level, but it is degrading both to the people involved and to our true National Character; we are supposed to be a Nation of Liberty and Truth, a shining beacon to the rest of the world, and a paragon of Freedom.

This act nullifies ALL of that, as have so many of the completely appallingly un-American activities going on. I am proud of being an American because I am proud that America is supposed to be a land that does not torture, that does not aggressively start wars against created enemies, that does not spy upon and otherwise limit the Constitutional Rights of its citizens, and that does not murder the innocents of other lands. I am starting to feel that I do not recognize my country any more, and I know that I am not alone.

I am a straight and married man, so in theory I should not care about my fellow citizens inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness as long as I am fine, right? Wrong.

America is and should always be the Land of the Free, and we should continue to seek to improve our citizens’ rights and standings, not reduce them.

We are not a Christian nation, we are a great melting pot of many people with many beliefs, and therefore should refrain from the danger of legislation which is poorly based upon religious law. Our strengths lie in our variety, and in our history of attempting to right the wrongs of history. let us not move backward.

Thank you.