Yesterday the House of Representatives defeated the proposed Constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage by a vote of 227 to 186. Paranoid conservatives trotted out the usual baseless arguments that gay people are destroying "traditional" (read: heterosexual) marriages.
The New York Times reports:
At one point, Representative John Carter, a Texas Republican and a former district court judge, lamented that he had presided over the dissolution of 20,000 marriages.
The remark prompted an angry outburst from Representative Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat who is openly gay. "I'm a gay man and I presided over the dissolution of none," Mr. Frank barked on the House floor. "I'm sorry Rush Limbaugh's been divorced three times," he added, in a reference to the conservative talk show host, "but it ain't my fault."
As we say in Chelsea, "You go, girl."
Furthermore, it's obvious that the vote was scheduled for the day of the first presidential debate. The bigots knew they would lose by a landslide, and also knew coverage of the debates in the press would totally obscure their ignominious defeat.
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