WASHINGTON, October 4, 2004 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – A majority of representatives in the US House voted last Thursday to approve a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman, but failed to reach the necessary two-thirds supermajority required by the Constitution. The House voted 227-186 in favour of the amendment. Most supporters of the amendment had already acknowledged that the outcome was foreordained, as it was in a similar Senate vote this past summer, but that it put lawmakers on the record on the issue before Election Day. Voting in favour of the amendment were 191 Republicans and 36 Democrats. Voting against it were 158 Democrats, 27 Republicans, and one independent. The language of the amendment said marriage in the United States “shall consist only of a man and a woman.” It also would have required that neither the US Constitution nor any state constitution “shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a man and a woman.” Marriage defenders are not daunted. Thirteen states have passed or are seeking to pass marriage protection amendments to their state constitutions and President Bush strongly supports the measure.
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U.S. House Fails To Reach Supermajority For Marriage Amendment
WASHINGTON, October 4, 2004 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) – A majority of representatives in the US House voted last Thursday to approve a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman, but failed to reach the necessary two-thirds supermajority required by the Constitution. The House voted 227-186 in favour of the amendment. Most supporters of the amendment had already acknowledged that the outcome was foreordained, as it was in a similar Senate vote this past summer, but that it put lawmakers on the record on the issue before Election Day. Voting in favour of the amendment were 191 […]
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