Tuesday, May 2, 2006

Danforth says gay marriage ban silly idea:

Former Sen. John Danforth says a conservative push to ban gay marriage through a constitutional amendment is silly, calling it the latest example of how the political influence of evangelical Christians is hurting the GOP.

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Referring to the marriage amendment, he added that perhaps at some point in history there was a constitutional amendment proposed that was "sillier than this one, but I don't know of one."


Well, prohibition itself was pretty damned silly. And then there were all the amendments to ban interracial marriage, polygamy, and divorce.

I don't know if any of those are "sillier", but they're sure up there.

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