So much for the Republican Party "concentrating on the economy" and keeping government out of people's lives ...
Only one week after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal from marriage equality opponents in Washington D.C. who sought a voter referendum on the issue, the new House Republican leadership says they will push for it, reports The Hill.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC), told The Hill that he will push for a vote on the controversial issue in the 112th Congress. The RSC has 175 members. "I think RSC will push for it, and I’m certainly strongly for it. I don’t know if we’ve made a decision if I’ll do it or let another member do it, but I’m 100 percent for it," Jordan said.
In the last Congress, Jordan was the lead sponsor on the D.C. Defense of Marriage Act. The bill was introduced after the D.C. City Council and then-Mayor Adrian Fenty indicated they would recognize same-sex marriages. Jordan’s measure garnered 53 co-sponsors last year. But it is expected to attract more support in the GOP-led House in 2011.
Jordan was one of 49 congressmen, including two senators, who filed an amicus brief to Bishop Harry Jackson's challenge to the D.C. Board of Elections refusal to allow a ballot measure on the issue. The Court refused to intervene.
Joe Sudbay at AMERICABlog outlines how the GOP could use the congressional legislative process to overturn marriage equality in our nation's capitol.
Closet queen face much? He looks like a toe tapper and a closeted mofo.
Posted by: Former COGIC | 25 January 2011 at 12:01
What say the homocons and Palin butt sniffers at GOProud, who claims conservatives "love" gays and would never do this?
Posted by: South Side | 25 January 2011 at 12:09
Thats all republicans seem to wanna do is TAKE,TAKE health care away from people TAKE the right for women to choose and TAKE our right to marry. TAKE TAKE TAKE
Thank You my democrat congressmen for introducing a bill in maryland congress that would allow me to marry the man i love. Thank you my democrat president for giving my uninsured ass health care, Thank you Democrats. I will be voting 2012!
Democrats Give Republican Take
Posted by: Logan | 25 January 2011 at 12:54
I swear. Of all the things to focus on in this shitty world.
Who cares who people marry? I'm amazed that people are so threatened by this stuff ... What happened to live and let live?
I always wonder very hard about men who are intensely interested in what other men do in their private lives. OR even care?
Protecting the sanctity of straight marriage when so many are based on lies, shams and tom-foolery.
Why are so many threatened by two adults pursuing all the pursuits of happiness in a free society? But even so, why are so many so-called straight dudes threatened? I wonder, I wonder.
Most straight men I run across could give a rat's ass of what two gay dudes are doing, especially in the privacy of their homes.
The ones who focus so intently on it are extremely suspect.
I wish we could all go back into people's pasts and dig up all the dirty little boy n girl secrets for all to see.
It would be a telling story.
Posted by: Bernie B | 25 January 2011 at 13:04
@ Bernie B
I agree...this guy is hella shady. I hope this doesn't pass...Republicans can be such horrible people. It's disgusting really.
Posted by: MW09 | 25 January 2011 at 13:13
Typical Republicans. They want a binding referendum on marriage equality but not on DC statehood.
Posted by: 405 S | 25 January 2011 at 13:14
I don't think his opposition to marriage equality necessarily means he's a closet case. Some people are just slaves to religious worldview (just checked and surprise! Jordan is an evangelical). Some are just so pathetically insecure that they need an entire group of people unlike them to oppress. Whatever his reason, he's a tw@t.
Posted by: Justin | 25 January 2011 at 19:13
Fight this republican trash!! DC peeps, fight 'em in the polls and send your lettres!!
Posted by: CC | 26 January 2011 at 17:59
@405S
"They want a binding referendum on marriage equality but not on DC statehood."
Bingo. The House Rethugs will open up another can of worms if they pursue this.
Posted by: Chitown Kev | 27 January 2011 at 10:46