The House on Tuesday rejected a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, ending for another year a congressional debate that supporters of the ban hope will still reverberate in this fall's election.  The 236-187 vote for the proposal to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman was 47 votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to advance a constitutional amendment. It followed six weeks after the Senate also decisively defeated the amendment.

I can't say this is a win for the Democrats, because the Republicans keep doing this for a political edge.  Even though it got voted down in both houses of Congress, it still doesn't mean it will stop being an issue.  Republicans use this as a ploy to get conservative voters to the polls.  They really don't care about the definition of marriage, they only care if more conservatives get elected.

I personally am not against a gay marriage ban.  I feel that gays should have the right to marry because homosexuality is not a choice, it is just the way you are.  Allowing them to marry harms me in no physical way what so ever.  It does not violate a "traditional" marriage because of the fact that ones marriage is unique to that couple only.  Besides, what gives me the right to tell two people who loves one another completely that they do not have the right to unite as one.  In the church's eye, it is morally wrong but that should be between them and God, not our government.  For a Republican party whose principles are not to meddle in people's personal lives, sure are doing an awful lot to get involed where they have no business being.