What a thing to come home to. I get home from work today, tired but satisfied at accomplishing some stuff and managing to still really like my job after 2 months, and Eli tells me the good news: the “marriage” amendment has died in the Senate (via CNN.com).
I’m so excited I can barely think straight. Not only is my partner home from her house-sitting gig (3 long days in Lake Elmo, where I just couldn’t afford to drive out to see her), but that gull-dang discriminatory amendment is dead (for now…). Yes, it’s not everything we had wanted, but it’s the least we had hoped for. Here’s to the government moving in the right direction. And here’s hoping they’ll keep it up.
“Efforts to pass a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage foundered Wednesday afternoon when the proposal failed to garner enough votes in the Senate to stay alive.
After final arguments by the leaders of each party, Republicans mustered 48 votes, 12 short of the 60 they needed to overcome a procedural hurdle and move the proposed amendment to the floor.
‘In 217 years, we’ve only amended that sacred document 17 times,’ said Sen. Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, before the vote. ‘There have been 11,000 separate attempts.’
Daschle said no urgent need exists to amend the Constitution now.