According to this website, the national senate's voting on the federal "straight marriage only" amendment next Friday.

http://www.thetaskforce.org/ourprojects/FMA/index.cfm

Please consider going to this website and sending your congressman a little note of encouragement against this damned thing--particularly if you live outside Texas, where your state isn't dominated by republiclones :(

This has gone up to a vote before, and been shot down before, getting an amendment passed is way the hell challenging, but if it somehow gets to a vote I've learned never to question the force of a smug and ignorant majority steered by a vocal and immoral minority.

Growl.