March 18, 2008

Pennsylvania On Verge of Regressing to Dark Ages; Marriage Ban Vote Today

Just when you thought they were through beating us up…

Panel to vote on same-sex marriage prohibition

HARRISBURG [PA] — The Senate Judiciary Committee held round one yesterday on a controversial amendment to the state constitution intended to stop men from marrying other men and women from marrying other women in the Keystone State.

The judiciary panel is due to hold round two today, when it’s expected to vote on whether to send the so-called Pennsylvania Marriage Protection Act to the full Senate for action.

The measure, introduced by several conservative Republican senators, led by freshman Michael Brubaker of Lancaster, is intended to bolster a 1996 state law, the Defense of Marriage Act, which already outlaws marriage between people of the same sex.

Mr. Brubaker said merely having a law on the books isn’t enough, and he wants to amend the state constitution. Supporters say a future General Assembly could repeal the 1996 act, or a judge could throw it out should a gay couple bring a legal challenge to it.

Maggie Gallagher of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, and Janice Hollis, senior pastor of Progressive Believers Ministries in Philadelphia, supported the proposed constitutional amendment.

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Ms. Gallagher said about two-thirds of Pennsylvanians support traditional marriage. “They are not hate-filled bigots,” she said. The vast majority of the standing room-only crowd of 125 people applauded her. …

Wrong-O, Maggie: Anyone so dead-set on preventing us from sharing in the joy of marrying the ones we love — in addition to the 1,100-plus rights and responsibilities of marriage — are indeed hate-filled bigots.

Prove me wrong. Show me where your Jesus told you to stand at the top of the heap and urinate all over the rest of us with your heterosexual privilege. Show me.

Posted by: Sapphocrat

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