Didn’t happen.Effort…

Didn’t happen.

Efforts to pass a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage foundered Wednesday afternoon when the proposal failed to garner enough votes in the Senate to stay alive.

After final arguments by the leaders of each party, Republicans mustered 48 votes, 12 short of the 60 they needed to overcome a procedural hurdle and move the proposed amendment to the floor.

Clayton Cramer takes Daschle to task for his explanation of his vote against the amendment.

This quote from Senator Daschle shows how dishonest these turkeys can be:

But Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle said there was no “urgent need” to amend the Constitution. “Marriage is a sacred union between men and women. That is what the vast majority of Americans believe. It’s what virtually all South Dakotans believe. It’s what I believe.”

“In South Dakota, we’ve never had a single same sex marriage and we won’t have any,” he said. “It’s prohibited by South Dakota law as it is now in 38 other states. There is no confusion. There is no ambiguity.”

And what will he say after the Supreme Court rules (as they hinted in Lawrence) that bans on homosexual marriage are just bigotry? His excuse then will be that by the time Congress and the states act, there will be thousands of married homosexuals, and who would want to break up those marriages?

Say what they want about it, this vote was for or against the classic institution of marriage as one man and one woman. Alleged concern for states rights won’t wash. “States rights” is something the Democrats never concern themselves with unless they’re obfuscating. As Clayton notes, that’s a “principle that Democrats last embraced to justify segregation of public schools”. I’d also note they trotted it out during the 2000 election, objecting to the fact that the Supreme Court was telling Florida to follow its own election rules.

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