Mikulski votes for human rights

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For a roll-call showing how each U.S. Senator voted (or didn't) on an anti-queer motion, July 14, please see San Francisco Chronicle, 15 July 2004.

Forty-eight senators voted for anti-queer discrimination, while 50 voted for human rights and/or states' rights,
and two went AWOL. The vote was on a procedural motion, NOT directly on a proposed anti-gay-marriage amendment to the U.S. Constitution. If senators had been voting directly on the constitutional amendment, the pro-discrimination votes would have been even fewer (perhaps 42*). Many conservatives believe that marriage is a matter for each state to govern; and that marriage laws shouldn't be federalized.

Senator Barbara Mikulski, whose sexual orientation isn't known,
voted against discrimination, as did most of her fellow Democrats.
Back in 1996, after she voted for DOMA, Mikulski was hassled by queer activists.
[Please see: 'OUTING' REVISITED, by Bob Roehr, Bay Area Reporter, 15 July 2004.]


-- Tortuga Bi LIBERTY,
SF, CA
Friday, 16 July 2004
http://pages.prodigy.net/seniornude
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*For details on 48 or 42, please see:
[ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/07/15/MNGKE7LMNO1.DTL ]
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