1.0 link 109624 <![CDATA[Craig, Vitter Sponsor Bill To "Protect" Marriage]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/27/craig-vitter-sponsor-bill_n_109624.html Just this week, a group of Republican senators re-introduced the Federal Marriage Amendment to the Constitution, which, as we know, would ban gay marriage.

This isn't especially surprising. Republicans are looking at the political landscape, and they're feeling awfully discouraged. The polls look bad, the base looks depressed, and fundraising looks iffy. Rallying the far-right troops with an anti-gay amendment to the Constitution -- even though it has no chance at even getting so much as a hearing -- might be...

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