Friday, July 16, 2004

Catholics who voted for gay "marriage"

This just in from Deal Hudson on the Federal Marriage Amendment vote:
[Fourteen] Catholic senators against the FMA, 5 in favor, and 5 undecided. Fortunately, four of those undecided Catholic senators did the right thing in the end and voted "yes" to the cloture vote on the amendment. Only John Sununu, a Republican from New Hampshire, went the other way and voted "no." That's a big disappointment. (By the way, the most famous Catholic of the bunch, John Kerry,didn't vote. Big surprise.)

Some of the names on the opposition list are not surprising -- Ted Kennedy, Barbara Mikulski, and Tom Daschle, to name a few of the usual suspects. A couple of the names, though, are kind of funny. Dick Durbin of Illinois, for example, who created the infamous Catholic senator "score card" that ranked him the second most Catholic senator on the Hill. Who would have guessed that the most Catholic senators in Washington are all ignoring the bishops conference and casting votes in favor of gay marriage?

Anyway, here are the rest of the senators who voted against;cloture:
  • Joseph Biden (D-DE)
  • John Breaux (D-LA)
  • Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
  • Susan Collins (R-ME)
  • Christopher Dodd (D-CT)
  • Tom Harkin (D-IA)
  • Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
  • Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
  • Patty Murray (D-WA)
  • John Reed (D-RI)

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