By Bradley Vasoli, The Bulletin
05/06/2008
Harrisburg - The Pennsylvania Marriage Amendment, a constitutional measure to define marriage in the commonwealth as a union between one man and one woman, was tabled indefinitely yesterday.
Sen. Mike Brubaker (R-Lancaster) withdrew his amendment from consideration after Pennsylvania House of Representatives Speaker Dennis O'Brien (R-Philadelphia) stated that he would refer the amendment, if passed out of the Senate, to the House Committee on State Government and it had become clear that its majority chair, Rep. Babette Josephs (D-Philadelphia), would not schedule the measure for timely consideration.
"Sen. Brubaker's very disappointed," his spokesman Nathan Flood said. "Sen. Brubaker hopes that the speaker of the House would reconsider sending the bill to the state government committee."
Mr. Flood said that it is procedurally important that the state Constitution codify marriage law as applying only to couples of one man and one woman because many Pennsylvania laws treat marriages that way. The introduction of homosexual marriages in one fell swoop, he said, would confound the application of many of those earlier statutes.
"There are about 1,200 laws that were written with the understanding that a marriage was between one man and one woman that would be affected and that would have to be altered," he said....read more
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