ALLISON: We have this breaking story from the Atlantic Hotel and Convention Center. ANN has just learned that a floor vote has taken place. I repeat, a floor vote has taken place, and the ten-amendment limit is no longer in effect. Here is our reporter in the field, Peggy DeMetrio, with the latest developments. Peggy?
PEGGY: It’s an incredible scene here, as you can see and hear in the background. The main hall is in sheer bedlam as delegates are trying to out-shout and out-shove one another in order to be next to speak. This is a severe defeat for the center moderates as the radicals of the left and right combined to ignore Committee and simply threw out the limit. So far, 26 amendments have been submitted and many, many more are on the way, including: mandatory school prayer; outlaw divorce; death penalty for abortion; life in psychiatric prison for gays and lesbians who do not repent; evolution teaching outlawed; funds cut off to universities that do not establish creationism centers. And here are a few from the left: Civil rights status for gays; death penalty for child abuse; no death penalty but life in prison without parole for capital offenders; civil rights status for mothers of young children so they can get jobs, training, and the like. The list gets longer by the moment. These delegates may eventually say enough and close the Agenda. It’s clear now that many of the delegates who ran for their office under the Congressional Act of Convention simply lied about their agendas. Stealth candidates, you would call them. In the meantime, things are rough on the floor. I have seen several floor fights—I mean literally fisticuffs—in the past hour. Under the same Congressional act, these delegates are immune from civil proceedings, so I don’t know how order can ultimately be restored here. Back to you, Allison.
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