How about tossing us a bone with meat on it?

Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont has filed an amendment to the big immigration bill to allow one member of a same-sex couple to sponsor the other for a green card. Great, yes? Commenters are unimpressed. This is the same amendment he withdrew while the bill was in committee and where it needed only 50% of the vote. Now, before the full Senate, amendments will need 60%. Given the comments coming out of the GOP that's nearly impossible. Granted, the GOP vowed to kill the whole immigration bill if the gay amendment were included, but if someone was to throw us a bone, we'd like it to not be imaginary, done for political theater.



A lot of conservatives are trying to equate the current marriage equality cases before the Supremes with Roe v. Wade of 40 years ago. As in telling the Supremes: Don't approve gay marriage because it will split the country and that split will never heal, leading to ongoing social protest. James Richardson, GOP strategist, disagrees. Public opinion on abortion hasn't budged much in 40 years. Opinion on marriage equality has changed drastically over the hast few years.