Yahoo! News - Dems Nix Idea of 2 Gay Marriage Measures
WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans prepared two versions of a constitutional amendment on marriage Monday, unable to agree among themselves on how best to get a vote on a measure that President Bush made an election-year priority for Congress.

The likely outcome is that neither proposal will get a direct vote after Democrats just last week had agreed to allow one.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said there was "great interest" among Republicans for a simpler approach that would add only one line to the U.S. Constitution: "Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman."

Cheryl Jacques, president of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay political organization, said the last-minute effort to get votes on two different versions reflected a lack of care in drafting the amendment.

"I think it is outrageous and frankly surreal that at the 11th hour in this debate, they are literally rewriting the Constitution on the back of a napkin," she said.

I am absolutely fucking disgusted by this whole thing. To think that in 2004, after the civil rights movement, after the women's rights movement, after all that history has taught us about bigotry and discrimination, here we are today trying to figure out how to best word an amendment that would deny certain citizens equal rights.

Will it take another Stonewall? Do we have to resort to violence to get America's attention? Perhaps so. It seems to be the only thing that the idiots respect.