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(Washington) It must be an election year - Republicans in Congress are preparing for a new attempt to pass a constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has scheduled debate on the so-called Marriage Protection Amendment for the week of June 5.
This week the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee released a 16-page policy document outlining the GOP arguments for the amendment.
"The time has come to allow the democratic process to work by sending a constitutional amendment to the states," it says.
The Senate Republican Policy Committee is composed of GOP Senate leaders and the chairmen of the Senate's standing committees.
Calling Lambda Legal, the ACLU and Freedom To Marry a "cabal" the report says "It is plain that the same-sex marriage advocates’ campaign through the courts continues unabated. The only way to ensure that the American people, rather than judges, decide this fundamental question about the future of marriage in America is to offer them the opportunity to consider and ratify a constitutional amendment through their state legislatures."
The document, aimed at providing talking points and details of same-sex marriage suits in the states the policy paper says that "the advocates of same-sex marriage have been executing a carefully plotted litigation strategy for the past 15 years, and it has begun to bear fruit."
The paper also warns that state Supreme Courts in New Jersey, Washington and New York could legalize same-sex marriage before the end of the year.
"Failing to act to protect traditional marriage laws by a constitutional amendment will, in the end, likely result in the judicial imposition of same-sex marriage on a nationwide basis," the policy committee warns.
The proposed amendment is almost identical to one which failed to get enough votes in 2004 - just before the last election. It was reintroduced in January. A House version was reintroduced in March.
To become part of the U.S. Constitution, an amendment must be approved by two-thirds of both the House and Senate and ratified by three-fourths of the states.
Federal law already bans recognition of same-sex unions. The federal Defense of Marriage Act was signed into law by President Bill Clinton.
Frist says that the law is not enough, adding that the amendment would block "the whims of a few activist judges" from overriding "the common sense of the American people."
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