President George W Bush has said he will carry on trying to make homosexual marriages illegal in the US after a constitutional amendment on the issue was defeated by the Senate.
- The Republican proposal failed to gain the support of the 60 senators it needed to progress to the next stage.
Mr Bush is seeking to change the US constitution to specify that marriage can only take place between a man and a woman.
So far 38 US states have banned homosexual marriage, but lawsuits in Florida, Nebraska, New Jersey and Oregon are seeking to have it ruled legal.
Republicans have vowed to fight on but the measure is now unlikely to be passed before the November elections.
A view on this matter - Marriage is a legal joining of two individuals. People who are not religious choose to get married in a registry office and not in church. Marriage shows the strongest commitment you can make to one another. I fail to see what God has to do with this? Marriage in this instance is not religious, but a legal joining. Getting married is the ultimate way of showing your love and commitment to your partner, so why should gay people be deprived of this right? Who are we to sit and judge anyway? Same sex marriages should be legalised as soon as possible, we are clearly living in a backward society which is yet to embrace what society wanted 10 years ago.
- The Republican proposal failed to gain the support of the 60 senators it needed to progress to the next stage.
Mr Bush is seeking to change the US constitution to specify that marriage can only take place between a man and a woman.
So far 38 US states have banned homosexual marriage, but lawsuits in Florida, Nebraska, New Jersey and Oregon are seeking to have it ruled legal.
Republicans have vowed to fight on but the measure is now unlikely to be passed before the November elections.
A view on this matter - Marriage is a legal joining of two individuals. People who are not religious choose to get married in a registry office and not in church. Marriage shows the strongest commitment you can make to one another. I fail to see what God has to do with this? Marriage in this instance is not religious, but a legal joining. Getting married is the ultimate way of showing your love and commitment to your partner, so why should gay people be deprived of this right? Who are we to sit and judge anyway? Same sex marriages should be legalised as soon as possible, we are clearly living in a backward society which is yet to embrace what society wanted 10 years ago.