Column: Politics
Sen. Larry Craig Co-Sponsors Defense of Marriage Amendment
By Jill Kuraitis, 6-30-08
Sens. Larry Craig (R-ID) and David Vitter (R-LA) have signed on as co-sponsors of S.J. Res. 43, the Marriage Protection Amendment - a bill that would amend the Constitution to declare that marriage “shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman.”
Sen. Craig was arrested June 11, 2007 on charges of lewd conduct in a Minneapolis airport terminal and pled guilty.
Sen. Vitter was on a list of clients of a prostitution firm owned by “The DC Madam,” Deborah Jeane Palfrey.
This is the fourth attempt by Republicans during this Congress to legislate what they call “family values” with similar bills.
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‘Section 1. This article may be cited as the ‘Marriage Protection Amendment’.
‘Section 2. Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution, nor the constitution of any State, shall be construed to require that being married should restrict any man or woman from having carnal relations with a person other than his or her spouse’.
‘Section 3. No married man or woman shall be required to admit having participated in carnal relations outside of that marriage if such act should later be discovered and reported to the public’.
‘Section 4. All marriages between a man and a woman are hereby protected from any harm that might result from violence or sexual abuse upon the other marriage partner, neglect or abandonment of the other partner, alcohol or drug abuse by the other partner, the participation of any party in solicitation of prostitution, or any criminal behavior by any party’.
Just kidding. You can read the actual text <a >here</a>.