All the more reason we need to vote pro-family this election.
Today’s vote is by no means the end of a constitutional amendment (which is really what is needed in this case). If the Senate does not address matters successfully there is also recourse to the state legislatures to get the matter addressed.
It’s likely to be a long, hard slog either way, though.
Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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As Mark Shea is fond of saying on his blog, “Gay marriage at bat. On deck: polygamy.”
Bummer.
How has God and the Sacrament of Marriage survived lo these many millenia without the protection of the Constitution of the United States of America?
A friend who has sources who have sources who have sources, etc., you know the drill, on Capitol Hill, tells me that not even the backers of this bill expected it to pass. Unfortunately, there may be some truth to the Democratic charge that this bill (whatever its origins) quickly became a tool of election-year politicking, e.g. to force Kerry/Edwards to take an embarrassing stance, etc.