Senators Deep-Six MPA — For Now
Christians, I’m disappointed in you for not taking a more active role in pressuring your senators in supporting this amendment. I want to make it perfectly clear to all of you that without this amendment, the traditional American family, the building block of our society ever since this country was started and also the building block of all society’s over the ages, will be corrupted and destroyed by the activist courts, against the will of a majority of people.
(AgapePress) - Supporters of the Marriage Protection Amendment (MPA) are not distraught over the fact that the U.S. Senate has rejected the call for a vote on the measure. Sixty votes were needed to have the measure come up for an up-or-down vote; the move came up 11 votes short.
Despite that setback, supporters in the Senate are not going to “fall back and cry about it,” says Senator Orin Hatch of Utah. “I think they are going to keep bringing it up,” says the Republican lawmaker. In fact, according to Associated Press, the measure may come up next month in the U.S. House. It is an issue of “significant importance” to many Americans, says House Majority Leader John Boehner of Ohio. “We have significant numbers of our members who want a vote on this, so we are going to have a vote,” he says.
The vote today (Wednesday, June 7) was 49-48, giving many pro-family groups that have lobbied for the MPA what they had hoped for leading up to the elections this fall — a list of senators they say shows who is willing to fight to protect traditional marriage, and who favors homosexual “marriage.” (Click here for the roll call vote)
Kansas Senator Sam Brownback says the 49-48 vote was “highly unfortunate” because Democratic senators opposed the amendment, despite what the people of their states had voted in earlier ballot initiatives.
“If the senators had voted as their states have already voted, the vote would have been 90-10 in favor of the amendment, as 45 states have defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman — and that’s what this amendment does: it defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman.”
The Republican lawmaker says even though Democrats in the Senate have now managed to defeat a marriage amendment for a second time, the push to eventually establish the amendment will not stop. “We are making progress,” he says, “and we will not stop until the institution of marriage between a man and a woman is protected and honored in the United States.”
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