NO FMA THIS YEAR

This is a bit of a shocker from Sandy Rios, of Concerned Women for America:

An amendment that protects marriage in name only is troublesome to us and does not go far enough… I would also like to say that we don’t think an amendment has a chance of passing at all in this Congress. And so we prefer holding back a little bit until we have a different Congress, different people sitting there before this issue’s even raised.

I think this means they don’t have the votes to push this through. It’s also clear that the hard right will not be satisfied unless the amendment bans civil unions, domestic partnerships and any benefits for gay and lesbian couples.