Praise the Lord and pass the empty symbolism

Or fail to pass.

Reuter’s Andy Sullivan provides some MSM liberal media bias (in this case, read “informative reporting”) on the looming “traditional marriage” amendment:

Opponents said the measure was a transparent attempt to shore up support among social conservatives before November’s congressional election, in a similar manner to the 2004 presidential campaign, when Congress should be dealing with issues like high gasoline prices and the war in Iraq

It turns out that banning gay marriage will work wonders for our society’s ills.

Several religious leaders joined Allard to argue that the ban is needed to counteract an array of social ills, from rising divorce rates to out-of-wedlock births. “Americans want our laws to send a positive message to our children,” said Matt Daniels, founder of the Alliance for Marriage Foundation.

I’ve also heard it will help cure cancer, reduce the trade deficit, and end corruption in congress. After all, legal gay marriage in Massachusetts is a well-known contributory cause of all of these problems.

Reuter’s provides us with a nice shot of the pins worn by supporters of “traditional marriage”:

Apparently, the designers rejected this image as a bit too traditional:

Now, I’m not saying that you’d have to be a moron to view a party that waits nearly two years after the last campaign in which it made gay marriage an issue to schedule a hopeless, symbolic vote on the issue as defending the interests of Conservative Christians…. Actually, I am. Maybe this time they’ll wake up and smell the cheap alcohol and hookers.

See, I can be just as shrill as the next liberal blogger!