Now, what I did not have time to get to--I feel like taking my coat off and throwing it across the table--what we did get to take, thanks to a former U.S. attorney from Georgia, Bob Barr bringing this on the floor, is this letter from Lambda Legal Defense. I would recommend Lambda Report, which is a Judeo-Christian ethical report on Lambda stuff. I want to read again to set the scene here. The key line highlighted in red on why we debated so long Hawaii's attempt and Hawaii is not far, thousands of miles away. That is only physically. I guess if Virginia across the Potomac were doing what Hawaii is doing or Maryland surrounding the district on three sides, then it would have been a different debate. But oh, let Hawaii do their vacation things and have all these homosexual marriages. But listen to this again from the Lambda Legal Defense Fund, and I have debated them on Crossfire: ``Many same-sex couples in and out of Hawaii are going to take advantage of what would be a landmark victory. The great majority of those who travel to Hawaii to marry will return to their homes in the rest of the 50 States expecting full legal recognition of their unions,'' and they will darn well try and get legal services, tax dollars, your tax dollars through a corporation we should have shut down, to make you pay for their battles back in these States to make the other 49 recognize their so-called Hawaiian marriage. Now, remember, it only passed 342 to 67, 2 present, 23 absent.…
Robert Dornan: “Now, what I did not have time to get to--I feel like taking my coat off and throwing it across the table--what we did…”
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Discussing the implications of same-sex marriage legislation in Hawaii.
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