Marriage
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to consider the constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman.
Our Congressman, Dave Obey, voted against this amendment in 2004.
According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Obey called the marriage amendment, and in our opinion its supporters, "ridiculous."
To us, what is ridiculous is that Obey keeps getting away with insulting our values like that. Our local media rarely takes him to task for his ridiculously out of touch record.
Let's just do a brief overview of why we're at this place - some judges have overturned the will of the people and their elected representatives. These judges say that the states no longer have the right to define who can be married in their state - ruling that marriage is now a civil right protected by the constitution instead of a civil institution defined by law.
At any rate, we are going to be watching closely to see what Obey does today. Will he pull an election year flip-flop? Will he take the weasel line of "I personally believe marriage is between one man and one woman, but I don't want to restrict the rights of others?" Or, will he stick to us being ridiculous for even wanting to pass this amendment.
We're watching.
[UPDATE: OBEY VOTES NO]
Our Congressman, Dave Obey, voted against this amendment in 2004.
According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Obey called the marriage amendment, and in our opinion its supporters, "ridiculous."
To us, what is ridiculous is that Obey keeps getting away with insulting our values like that. Our local media rarely takes him to task for his ridiculously out of touch record.
Let's just do a brief overview of why we're at this place - some judges have overturned the will of the people and their elected representatives. These judges say that the states no longer have the right to define who can be married in their state - ruling that marriage is now a civil right protected by the constitution instead of a civil institution defined by law.
At any rate, we are going to be watching closely to see what Obey does today. Will he pull an election year flip-flop? Will he take the weasel line of "I personally believe marriage is between one man and one woman, but I don't want to restrict the rights of others?" Or, will he stick to us being ridiculous for even wanting to pass this amendment.
We're watching.
[UPDATE: OBEY VOTES NO]
posted by ObeyOut2006 at 8:43 AM
3 Comments:
Obey will vote against it. He's arrogant and doesn't believe he can lose this fall.
Obey needs to keep his base energized and will vote against it again. I doubt he will say much about the vote other than to lie about its real intention (to keep liberal judges in check on this issue) and say it is homophobic and discriminatory. I'm sure he'll use it to rally the troups at his fund-raising events (in Washington) though.
FYI Northern WI is not Vermont or San Fransico Dave, you Dope! Vote your district not your special interest pals.
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