Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Marriage Amendment Voted Down In the Senate...

...by a scarily small margin. Here, for your perusal, are the politicians who just failed their Turing test[1], meaning that they voted for the amendment.

Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Allen (R-VA)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burns (R-MT)
Byrd (D-WV)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coleman (R-MN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Fitzgerald (R-IL)
Frist (R-TN)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
McConnell (R-KY)
Miller (D-GA)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-NE)
Nickles (R-OK)
Roberts (R-KS)
Santorum (R-PA)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Specter (R-PA)
Stevens (R-AK)
Talent (R-MO)
Thomas (R-WY)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)

[1] I realize I'm stretching the definition of Turing test to mean that it is a test of whether you are a human being or not. I would argue that's what the term means to most people who know vaguely what it is, and I feel quite strongly that voting for this preposterous amendment to the constitution, when there are a million other things that need our politicians's time and attention, is a big fat F on the test of humanity. If you feel remotely the same way and your representative's name is on this list, be angry. Write a letter to them listing all the things you wish they'd have spent their time doing.

2 comments:

Max and Me said...

yes there are innocent people being killed in the war but...hey let's focus on prohibiting people from marrying. how many more years do we have of this nonsense? please make it end!

Shocho said...

Gee, nearly all of those politicans are Republicans. Sometimes I think they make things into partisan issues just to make themselves look good in voting years.