On marriage equality."Though President Bush endorsed the federal marriage amendment The Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA) (also known as the Marriage Protection Amendment) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution which would define marriage in the United States as a union of one man and one woman. [in 2004], there's a reason he hasn't pushed it since. Not Gonna Happen, however many times it is dragged onto the Senate floor. The number of Americans who 'strongly oppose' same-sex marriage Noun 1. same-sex marriage - two people of the same sex who live together as a family; "the legal status of same-sex marriages has been hotly debated" couple, twosome, duet, duo - a pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable keeps dropping--from 42% two years ago to 28% today, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Pew Research Center--and there will never be the votes to 'write discrimination into the Constitution,' as Mary Cheney Mary Claire Cheney (born March 14, 1969) is the second daughter of Dick Cheney, the Vice President of the United States, and his wife, Second Lady Lynne Cheney. Early life Cheney is the daughter of current Vice President Dick Cheney and Second Lady Lynne. puts it. "The real Republican establishment ... senses the drift of the culture. Will & Grace may have retired to reruns ... but it's been supplanted by a gay Sopranos tough guy who out-brokebacks Jack and Ennis." --Frank Rich, writing in The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, May 21 "In the past few weeks, the media have been filled with appearances by Mary Cheney and others who are working to undercut the importance of marriage to 8 our survival as a society. The media have delighted in the fact that Vice President 2 Cheney's daughter publicly opposes the very convictions that brought her father's political party into the White House." --From a May 23 fund-raising e-mail from the & antigay Family Research Council "[Former New Jersey governor Jim] McGreevey's book ... vividly points out that living a lie is not only self-destructive, but also ruins the lives of people sucked into the sham.... The 'family values' crowd ... continues to create mixed orientation marriages that are surely doomed to fail." --Activist Wayne Besen Wayne Besen is a gay rights advocate in the United States. He is a former spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign. Besen, a gay man, was never personally involved in the ex-gay movement, but says he has interviewed hundreds of former and current ex-gays. in his online column Anything But Straight, June 1 |
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