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The Senate voted against a constitutional amendment to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman.(The Week)(Brief article)
The Senate voted against a constitutional amendment to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Sen. John McCain justified his "no" vote by saying that he did not see any imminent threat that federal judges would impose same-sex marriage on the country, and that voters in the states could remedy any overreaching by state judges. Sen. Judd Gregg, who had backed the amendment previously, ...
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