Alabama Senate Passes Gay Marriage Amendment

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/02/020905abMarr.htm

The Senate voted 35-0 Tuesday for the constitutional amendment. It now goes to the House, where members voted 85-7 Tuesday for an identical proposal. Either the House or the Senate will have to pass the other chamber's version before the constitutional amendment can go before voters in a statewide referendum.

Alabama has had a law since 1998 that bans gay marriages, but legislators — both Democrats and Republicans — said a constitutional prohibition would be stronger.

"It will be a safeguard for future generations," said Sen. Roger Bedford, D-Russellville.


so glad to see the Democrats standing up for gays and lesbians

[physioex]

1. It's Alabama.......

Unless you are Christian, White, Male, with atleast a 350 in your pickup just forget it......

[WildClarySage]

2. Wow, Alabaman tax dollars at work.

double plus laws for double plus good.

[xchrom]

3. where civilized thinking is still considered odd.

[BOSSHOG]

4. Future generations of what?

Children born of conservative, heterosexual incest? Children from today's homes broken by heterosexual divorce. Future generations of Bama spouses abused by their christian Bama husbands? Generations of teen girls in Alabama pregnant from the heterosexual lust of bubba jr? All of these problems will just disappear if Alabama prevents homosexuals from marrying. Love that red state pride.

[mermaid]

5. Hey, Come On...

We're talking Ala-fucking-Bama here...did you expect anything else?

[freestyle]

6. They just want to keep the segregation balanced

The article goes on to say that the discrimination amendment would be part of a referendum ballot that would also try (it failed before) to remove segregation era language. Hypocrisy knows no bounds. I hope the Black legislators who voted for this know that they will get back to active, vocal, and legally sanctioned racism soon enough. We can do so much better than this.