Generic 'Marriage': Senate: Fails to protect marriage, blocks House from doing so

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What the Christian Science Monitor calls the "battle of the century," has been lost in the first round due to the Senate's lackadaisical vote yesterday. There are a few different ways in which a Constitutional Amendment in the United States may be initiated. The first and most effective usually is by vote of the Congress, beginning in a 60% favourable vote in the Senate, which then would send forward the legislation to the House of Representatives. By voting a mere 49/48 acceptance of the bill to amend, the Senate abdicated its responsiblity (a sin called "uxuourisousness") which said, if it's to be done, let someone else do it." But this will by no means satisfy all Senators, so we can expect a return to that battleground on the issue of 1woman1man (which would outlaw polygamy, and would also outlaw use of the word "marriage" to term other 1-to 1 relations that could still conceivably bestow a legal recognition, by some or all states, on lesbian couples or male couples who wanted such - but they would be denied the name "marriage"–which would be reserved to its traditional meaning of 1woman1man excluding all others until death or divorce. In the meantime, legal experts and political strategists will be examining other avenues of passing the necessary Amendment to Protect Marriage, to protect marriage from being transformed into some other kinds of instituions (no matter how noble they may also be in their own way, or not). The battle now is to protect marriage from being transformed as an institution into a generic bead-and-breakfast arrangement limited to any two persons who want to combine their assests for awhile.

The way in which this battle goes in the USA could well affect what happens in Canada come Autumn, when the legislation rammed thru Parliament to de-nature marriage and to make it a generic institution of gmarriage only, has been scheduled to come to a vote possibly reforming what no stands.

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