When Senator Hatch asks if anyone really wants to suggest "that over half of the United States Senate is a crew of bigots?", do you think he REALLY wants an answer? Well that was exactly what he asked Senator Kennedy, who said "The Republican leadership is asking us to spend time writing bigotry into the Constitution,". Senator Kennedy also said "A vote for it is a vote against civil unions, against domestic partnership, against all other efforts for states to treat gays and lesbians fairly under the law." The Republican backers of the marriage amendment want Americans to believe that the wording of the amendment does nothing except prevent gay and lesbians from having a union defined as marriage. It's easier to get people to swallow than telling them that they are trying to pass an amendment that would prevent any gay or lesbian couple from having the legal benefits associated with marriage, ever.
They don't want to say that they are trying to destroy the thousands of legal marriages that have occurred between gay and lesbian couples in Massachusetts, essentially "divorcing" those couples with their votes. Protecting marriage? It doesn't sound like it to me.
I have no problem telling Senator Hatch "Yes. I think every single person who would vote for that amendment is a bigot."
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