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Kyl panel maps tactic to ban gay marriages

Billy House
Republic Washington Bureau
Aug. 1, 2003 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON - While President Bush and other Republicans press their opposition to same-sex marriages onto the national agenda as a potential 2004 campaign issue, a little-noticed "policy paper" this week from a Senate committee headed by Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl lays out what some see as a road map for the GOP strategy.

Titled "The Threat to Marriage from the Courts," the Senate Republican Policy Committee paper asserts that a constitutional amendment banning such marriages is the way to counter a "willingness" of law school professors, the legal profession, judges and even the Supreme Court to take "pro-same-sex marriage positions."

With a "same-sex marriage" ruling imminent in Massachusetts and court cases pending in Arizona, New Jersey and Indiana, the paper says, "These lawsuits will continue until Congress and the states adopt a constitutional amendment to protect traditional marriage."

"I believe that it is a road map for a Republican Party to make the issue of gay marriage into a divisive campaign issue," said Matt Foreman, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force executive director, after reviewing the document.

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[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. pathetic

The world going to Hell in a handbasket and these jackasses are spending their time on THIS.
:grr:

[cosmicdot]

2. oh, great, another road map

Kyl is an extreme wacko

"The Threat to Marriage from the Courts"

marriage is threatened?

what's being threatened is my civil rights, and possibly more with these wingnuts fueling the fires of fundamentalist talibanism in the USA

weapons of mass distraction - junior's in trouble - pull out the culture war

[goobergunch]

3. Remain calm, folks...

the House Judiciary Committee hasn't even begun hearings.