Bachmann Backs Amendment To Ban Gay Marriage

Bachmann is now polling either first or second on the GOP list for the 2012 presidential candidate. Given the present state of the GOP it would not surprise any of us if she were to win the nomination as either the presidential or vice presidential candidate.

Here she is calling for an amendment to ban gay marriage throughout the country. An amendment would trump any legislation passed by a state.

The Christian Post: Bachmann Would Back Federal Amendment Banning Gay Marriage

Speaking to Fox News Sunday, Bachmann said that if she were elected president she would back an amendment to define marriage as "between a man and a woman."


Bachmann, who has placed first and second in the latest polls of 2012 Republican candidates, will formally declare her candidacy Monday in Waterloo, Iowa, where she was born.

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The Christian Post: NY Catholic Bishop: We Should Speak 'Forcefully And Clearly' Against Gay Marriage

In the moments following the bill's passage, Dolan and DiMarzio also joined other Catholic bishops in New York to release a statement opposing the decision.


"The passage by the Legislature of a bill to alter radically and forever humanity’s historic understanding of marriage leaves us deeply disappointed and troubled," the bishops said.


"We worry that both marriage and the family will be undermined by this tragic presumption of government in passing this legislation that attempts to redefine these cornerstones of civilization."


The statement was also signed by Howard J. Hubbard, Bishop of Albany; Edward U. Kmiec, Bishop of Buffalo; Terry R. LaValley, Bishop of Ogdensburg; Matthew H. Clark, Bishop of Rochester; William F. Murphy, Bishop of Rockville Centre and Robert J. Cunningham, Bishop of Syracuse.


It is still unclear whether any of the bishops plan to deny communion to any Catholic politicians such as Cuomo and Republican Sen. Mark Grisanti who supported the gay marriage bill.