Excellent news: the proposed Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage has been shot down.

The House emphatically rejected a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage Thursday, the latest in a string of conservative pet causes advanced by Republican leaders in the run-up to Election Day.

The vote was 227-186, 49 votes shy of the two-thirds needed for approval of an amendment that President Bush backed but the Senate had previously scuttled.

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iTunes “Age of Love, The (Jam and Spoon Watch Out for Stella)” by Age of Love, The from the album Club Cuts EP Vol. 1 (1990, 6:39).

[See also: Cheney suddenly supports gay marriage | It’s only domestic violence if you’re married | It’s only domestic violence if you’re straight | Can Bush do anything but lie? | Marriage ‘by The Book’ ]

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