Congress and Marriage

House Marriage Amendment Falls Short

A vote in the House of Representatives failed to pass the Federal Marriage Amendment, which would have constitutionally defined marriage as a heterosexual union, as Peter Sachs reports in this week's full-text RNS article, linked above. The Senate had previously rejected the measure.

Interesting quote:

A co-sponsor of the amendment, Rep. Lincoln Davis, D-Tenn., called for expansion of the amendment to "go after the other major threats to the institution" by blocking people who divorce, commit adultery or are convicted of child abuse from running for public office. But Davis' spokesman, Tom Hayden, said the remark was "more tongue-in-cheek than anything else."