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...took them almost completely by surprise. G.O.P congressional sources tell TIME that House Speaker Dennis Hastert first heard about it when the White House phoned his office just 15 minutes before the President appeared on TV. Hastert, who opposes gay marriage but suspects that the fight over a constitutional ban could be a quagmire for Republicans, refused afterward to speak publicly to reporters...
States that do not want gay marriage have pursued their own routes to block it. Thirty-nine have passed laws making clear they would not recognize gay marriages or civil unions from other states. At least 12 are debating laws to ban same-sex marriages, strengthen existing bans or bar same-sex couples from receiving marriage benefits. Hawaii, Alaska, Nebraska and Nevada have gone even further, amending their constitutions to ban same-sex marriages, and 21 other other states are thinking of doing the same...
...relationship homosexual persons seek to enter." In a concurrence, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that the "traditional institution of marriage" was not in play. But in his furious dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia warned that the ruling would nonetheless lead to challenges not only to state laws that ban same-sex marriage but also to those that prohibit "adult incest, prostitution, masturbation, adultery, fornication, bestiality and obscenity." And, for that matter, says Don Wildmon, president of the Mississippi-based American Family Association, polygamy. "I wonder why there were no three people wanting to marry in San Francisco," he says...
...Louis Sheldon, will send out a fund-raising mailing called Homosexual Alert Fund to half a million households this week. Sheldon and his allies also hope to persuade sympathetic campaign donors to contact legislators and make clear that they will withhold money from candidates who fail to support a ban. "This will be the No. 1 issue in the next election," Wildmon predicts. "I think the average American has been slapped in the face by this...
...when Michigan became the 38th state to ratify a measure barring Congress from enacting any pay raises for itself that would take effect before the next general election--an idea first introduced in 1789. Oft-proposed amendments to require a balanced budget, permit prayer in public schools and ban flag burning have never made it out of Congress. The Equal Rights Amendment, which was meant to invalidate state and federal laws that discriminate against women, did emerge from Washington, only to grind to a halt in state legislatures in a process that took 10 years...