FMA fails in the Senate

Houston Chronicle:

Sponsors of a White House-backed attempt to ban gay marriage vowed Wednesday to not give up despite a major defeat in the Senate that exposed a split among Republicans. Conservatives forced the four-day Senate debate over same-sex marriage to increase public support and apply election-year pressure to Democrats opposed to the constitutional amendment. Instead, it revealed a skittish Senate drawn by a social issue into a political fight that was doomed from the start. The 50-48 vote against bringing the initiative to a vote left supporters 12 votes short of the 60 needed to keep the issue alive, effectively ending chances an amendment could be submitted this year for ratification in states. They fell 19 votes shy of the 67 needed to pass a constitutional amendment in the Senate.

I am opposed to the FMA and pleased with this defeat.