Senate Committee Passes "Marriage Protection Amendment"

Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee approved and sent to the full Senate a proposed Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. The Washington Post reports on the bitter 10-8 party-line committee vote favoring S.J.Res. 1. Reaction to the vote fell along expected lines. Americans United for Separation of Church and State said "that the Senate is trying to wed church and state in unholy matrimony." On the other hand, the Family Research Council applauded the Committee's action.