the Sugar Conspiracy

Thursday, June 17, 2004

Torture vs. gay marriage

The Senate voted without dissent yesterday to require the Bush administration to issue guidelines aimed at ensuring humane treatment of prisoners at U.S. military facilities and to report any violations promptly to Congress. . .

. . . Passage of the proposal by voice vote came after Republicans, facing defeat on the measure, agreed to raise no objections and offer no alternatives if the vote was taken by voice instead of putting all senators on record with a roll call, according to Democratic sources.

The Republicans won't go on record on torture, but they want to make sure every vote is recorded on gay marriage.

Senate Republican leaders have scheduled the Senate vote on a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman for the week of July 12, just two weeks before Democrats convene in Boston for their presidential nominating convention.

Via August.

posted by chris at 11:33 AM
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