Cloture Vote Anticipated Today on Marriage Amendment

by Fred Jackson
July 14, 2004

(AgapePress) - Although predictions of failure abound, pro-family leaders are calling on their supporters to continue to bombard senators with phone calls in advance of today's vote dealing with a constitutional amendment to protect traditional marriage.

Senators on both sides of the debate have, for the most part, completed their speeches, and now all that remains is a vote on the amendment which confines marriage to being only between a man and a woman. In actual fact, today's vote will likely consists of a vote on a cloture motion by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist as a way of ending a Democratic filibuster.

But as pro-family leader Gary Bauer puts it, regardless of the specifics of the motion, there is only one way to interpret the results. He says senators who support traditional marriage will vote for cloture, while senators who support homosexual "marriage" will vote against cloture.

Conservative leaders are vowing to hold those senators who show support for same-sex marriage accountable in November's election.

...more to come...