LOST IN ALL THE HOOPLA

...is the fact that the FMA went down to a smashing defeat. In the House, no less.

The Republican-controlled House emphatically defeated a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage Thursday, the latest in a string of conservative pet causes pushed to a vote by GOP leaders in the run-up to Election Day.

The vote was 227-186, 49 votes shy of the two-thirds needed for approval of an amendment that President Bush backed but the Senate had previously scuttled.

Bush issued a statement expressing disappointment with the vote’s outcome.

Because societies only become more and more tolerant over time, this is the best that the measure could ever possibly do from now on. So relax, ol' Consty, no one's gonna fuck with you.