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Dems: Vitter a hypocrite for bid to prohibit same-sex marriage
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| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision Jul 12, 2007 08:05pm |
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| News Date | Friday, July 13, 2007 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Democrats yesterday accused Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) of hypocrisy because he championed a constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage.
Last year Vitter told colleagues on the Senate floor, “It is very appropriate and well overdue that we in the Senate focus on nurturing, upholding, preserving and protecting such a fundamental social institution as traditional marriage.”
The words are coming back to haunt Vitter, who is married, following his admission this week that his phone number appeared in the records of the “D.C. Madam,” Deborah Jeane Palfrey, whom prosecutors have accused of running a prostitution ring.
“You need to read his speech about marriage, and if you read that speech and compare it to his behavior you can certainly conclude there is hypocrisy there,” Vitter’s colleague and one of the Senate’s 15 female members, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), said.
“Several years ago, when folks who were focused on the health of marriage and the upbringing of children from around the country gathered to begin the attack on this problem, they came to the Congress with the idea of proposing a constitutional amendment,” Vitter said last year when an amendment banning gay marriage reached the Senate floor. “I was in the House at the time, and I was honored that I was one of the four House Republicans … whom these leaders approached to be the original co-authors of this constitutional amendment.”
Vitter went on to say that “a lot of folks in Washington don’t fully understand” the importance of preserving and protecting marriage.
“Folks in Louisiana want those values upheld,” he said.
“Again, rather than focus on all these new government programs, new little ideas that we run to the floor of the Senate with every day, let’s take time to remember and focus on truly significant, enduring social institutions.”
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