Looks like anti-gay Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) is angling for a July vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment, which would bar any state from recognizing same-sex marriages. The amendment has little chance of garnering the 60 votes needed to keep it alive, but that's not the point: Santorum and the GOP's anti-gay crusaders want to use the vote to bludgeon gay-supportive Democrats in November.
But the anti-gay right isn't even united on the amendment. As this story from the conservative CNSNews.com reports:
Some conservative groups reject the Federal Marriage Amendment as currently written. Concerned Women for America says it's important to do more than preserve marriage "in name only." The group says same-sex partnerships should not be afforded the same benefits as married couples are.
"CWA opposes the Federal Marriage Amendment because it would not prevent state legislatures from recognizing and benefiting civil unions and other such relationships, which would result in legalized counterfeit marriage," the group's website says.
The politics of this thing get loopier every day.