Indiana House vote to ban gay marriage: How they voted

If you live in Indiana and don't know who your General Assembly (House) representative is, look here. Then see how he or she voted (scroll down). Then go here to email him or her. The following record of the roll call vote comes directly from the Indiana General Assembly website, which, we must say, doesn't make it especially easy to find out how representatives voted on a particular issue. To help stop the measure (HJR 6) in the Indiana Senate, go here or here.

Joe.My.God reports that ex-Hoosier Bil Browning of The Bilerico Project wants gay Indianans to help him expose the rank hypocrisy of certain state representatives who voted to advance this constitutional amendment to make gay couples strangers to the law. Here's what he wrote:

Now that a marriage discrimination amendment has passed the Indiana House of Representatives, apparently it's time to put out the same call I made in 2007 that helped to kill attempts to amend the constitution until now. Last time we found out that Senator Brandt Hershman, one of the sponsors of the amendment and right-to-life darling, had forced his wife to have an abortion in 1997 before he filed for divorce one week later. I also found an anti-gay legislator who was shtupping a male hairdresser while his wife died of a long-term illness.

     Consider this a call to gossip. I want to know the scoop. Tell me the stories that will embarrass those conservative bigots - Democrats and Republican - that are backing a constitutional ban on our formalized relationships. Send me gossip about who's a philanderer, a kink fiend, a drug addict, a porn addict, or had a divorce, an abortion or even a stay in rehab. Ask your friends and family for the dirt. Look it up on the internet. Sniff out a lead and send it my way.

     I specifically want to learn more about the alleged blowjob one of our married legislative leaders got caught receiving from a staffer in the Statehouse parking lot. I also want to know more about the single Senator who got all of his money after a rich non-related older man died and left it all to him. Rumor has it that there's a handful of legislators who are in the closet and have been spotted visiting the Unicorn Club's strippers and the gay baths. Several southern legislators supposedly have a fondness for blow.

Indiana House of Representatives
117th General Assembly
First Regular Session
MEETING DAY 19 02-15-11
Roll Call 185: PASSED
HJR 6 Turner Yeas: 70
Marriage. Nays: 26
Excused: 4
3rd Reading N/Voting: 0
VOTING YEA: 70
Bacon Ellspermann Lehe Saunders
Baird Espich Lehman Smith, M
Battles Foley Leonard Soliday
Bauer Friend Lutz Speedy
Behning Frizzell Mahan Steuerwald
Borders Frye, R McClain Thompson
Brown, T Goodin McMillin Torr
Burton Grubb McNamara Truitt
Cheatham Gutwein Messmer Turner
Cherry Heaton Morris Ubelhor
Crouch Heuer Moseley VanNatter
Culver Hinkle Neese Welch
Davis Karickhoff Niezgodski Wesco
Davisson Kersey Noe Wolkins
Dermody Kirchhofer Pond Yarde
Dobis Knollman Reske Mr. Speaker
Dodge Koch Rhoads
Eberhart Kubacki Richardson
VOTING NAY: 26
Austin DeLaney Lawson, L Smith, V
Bardon Dembowski Moses Stevenson
Bartlett Dvorak Pelath Sullivan
Candelaria Reardon Fry, C Pierce Tyler
Clere GiaQuinta Porter VanDenburgh
Crawford Harris Pryor
Day Klinker Riecken
EXCUSED FROM VOTING: 4
Brown,C Pflum Stemler Summers
NOT VOTING: NONE