Stay Strong, Joe Hackney

The Dome and the Associated Press are reporting that the elation of homophobes in the House about getting their discrimination bill out of committee will be short-lived.

House Speaker Joe Hackney said he would use the power of his office to kill the proposed constitutional amendment defining marriage.

This is why we coaxed and cajoled and fought for Joe Hackney to become Speaker. A lesser man might have succumbed to the pressures of hellfire and brimstone spewing out for the mouths of family-value Theocrats.

"I said at the beginning of the session that we will control the agenda, and that's what we will do," the Orange County Democrat said. Hackney said he would send the bill to a committee, where it will likely die this session. The bill, which would bring to a public vote a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union between a man and woman, must pass either the House or Senate this week in order to stay alive for the legislative session.

Fred Smith is behind this hateful legislation and his motives are not pure. He knows he has no chance of being governor unless he can rally the lunatic fringe to come out and vote against the faggots and the spics and the commies. He reeeeeeeeeally wants this amendment on the ballot in 2008 - it's his only hope.

Poor Fredly. He has met his match: a man named Joe.