Get out and VOTE, Damn It!!!!!!

[Sir Diddimus]

TN voters will decide gay marriage issue on '06 gubernatorial ballot

Voters in the next election for governor will also decide whether to imbed a ban on gay marriage in the state constitution.

The state House this morning passed the resolution on a vote of 88-to-7, echoing an earlier two-thirds passage in the Senate.

When it goes before the voters, the measure will need more than a simple majority. Amending the Tennessee Constitution requires passage by a number of votes that equals a majority of ballots cast in the governor's race.

Representative Bill Dunn -- a Knoxville Republican -- says he feels he was doing right in sponsoring the bill and says it's proper for government to be involved in defining marriage.

Memphis Democrat Beverly Marrero says she voted against it because the measure would write discrimination into the state constitution.

Also voting "no" were Democrats Joe Armstrong and Harry J. Tindell of Knoxville; Rob Briley and Janis Baird Sontany of Nashville; Tommie Brown of Chattanooga and Larry Turner of Memphis.

The issue will be on the 2006 gubernatorial ballot.

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That poll is so gay.