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ABERCROMBIE WILL SIGN GAY MARRIAGE BILL WEDNESDAY
Honolulu Star Advertiser ^
| Nov 12, 2013
| staff
Posted on 11/12/2013 8:22:13 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: LeoWindhorse
Perverts win and traditional values lose again.
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posted on
11/14/2013 8:20:43 AM PST
by
opres
To: LeoWindhorse
The way their constitution amendment was constructed, the spirit of the amendment was that marriage redefinition was prohibited by the people of Hawaii. I presume that a back-door loophole was inserted by sodomites to allow for Congress to ignore the people.
It should have been written more durably. But then, who would have thought 15 years ago that the attacks against marriage would ever become so vicious?
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posted on
11/14/2013 11:19:55 AM PST
by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: fwdude
The way their constitution amendment was constructed, the spirit of the amendment was that marriage redefinition was prohibited by the people of Hawaii. I presume that a back-door loophole was inserted by sodomites to allow for Congress to ignore the people.
Actually, that's not the case. I just looked it up, and the amendment asked this question:
Shall the Constitution of the state of Hawaii be amended to specify that the Legislature shall have the power to reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples?
That's it.
Not "must gay marriage be banned", or "should it be banned" or even "do you want it to be banned". Just "should the Legislature have the authority to ban it." And whatever the Legislature has the option to prohibit, it also has the power to allow.
So this is perfectly in line with both the letter and spirit of the Constitutional amendment. We don't have to like the results, but this is exactly how a representative democracy is supposed to work. If this is truly against the will of the people, they can vote the representatives and governor out of office and pass a stricter amendment. That's the rule of law. What matters is how we respond now.
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11/14/2013 4:01:57 PM PST
by
highball
("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
To: highball; LeoWindhorse
That was exactly the problem with the amendment; it left the door open to this disgrace.
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