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House panel votes to ban gay marriage on military bases

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    Lawmakers vote to prohibit same-sex marriage

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House armed services committee.

Voted to bar gay couples from getting married on military bases and Peter -- -- on that story -- He joins us from Washington as usual also Peter had that come about.

Martha some members think that it would level the playing field the Republican member of the house armed services committee tied -- -- -- homosexuals are now more protected.

Then other members of the military so he proposed an amendment to ban.

Same sex marriage ceremonies on military installations and it -- 37 to 2.4.

The president has repealed Don't Ask Don't Tell.

He's now using the military.

As campaign props to advance the gay agenda.

By ignoring dorm -- He now is promoting the same sex marriages with federal employees on federal property.

The committee also passed an AK an amendment to protect the conscience of any military clergy that it's morally opposed to same sex marriages and -- said.

2000 chaplains endorsed the measure but democratic members thank.

This is just unfairly singling out gay servicemen and women.

By singling out simply matters of religious conscience concerning the appropriate and inappropriate expression whatever that means.

Of human sexuality.

I think that this does much more mischief than it that it prevents.

And despite that back and forth nobody at last night's hearing ever specifically mentioned president Obama's new position on same sex marriage that in of itself as interesting so what was -- reaction of the president's comments elsewhere on the help leader.

In the senate the majority leader Harry Reid said the president is right but that he doesn't.

Fully agree with the new stance he said my personal belief is that marriage is between a man and a woman but in a civil society I believe that people should be able to marry whomever they want.

And it's no business of mind if two men or two women want to get there right now across the aisle Republican senator Marco Rubio said about the president.

I disagree with him on that position I agree.

With the old Barack Obama and he is of course referring to the president's passwords like 2004 when he said he believed that marriage was between a man and a woman and -- he didn't think marriage with the civil rights.

Aren't even thanking Peter can -- and Washington.

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