Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Republican "defenders" of marriage: What about that constitutional amendment on divorce? We're waiting
From the Indianapolis Star here (via alert reader MSJ):
Well, no. I wouldn't have bet on it anyhow.
Say, wasn't Gingrich the guy who served his first wife with divorce papers while she was in a hospital bed recovering from a cancer operation?
Defenders of marriage, my Aunt Fanny.
Claiming divorce -- not same-sex unions -- is undermining the sanctity of marriage, a group of gay Democrats on Monday asked state GOP Chairman Jim Kittle to identify Republican legislators who have been divorced.
The request comes as House Republicans are attempting to force a vote on a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. The amendment -- which Republicans last week called "the most important issue we're dealing with this session" -- was approved by the Senate but has been stalled in the House by Democratic leadership.
"We think it is fair to ask during this debate how many legislators who are demonizing gay marriage have actually committed the most grievous possible injury to the institution they claim to want to protect," said Linda Perdue, president of the Indiana Stonewall Democrats.
The political action committee, which works to elect gay and gay-friendly candidates to public office, also asked Kittle to release the marital histories of the party's two candidates for governor, Mitch Daniels and Eric Miller -- and their stands on a proposed constitutional ban.
"We will not be issuing a response to this," Kim Preston, press secretary for the Indiana Republican Party, told The Indianapolis Star.
Well, no. I wouldn't have bet on it anyhow.
Say, wasn't Gingrich the guy who served his first wife with divorce papers while she was in a hospital bed recovering from a cancer operation?
Defenders of marriage, my Aunt Fanny.
