Posted on 06/29/2015 12:42:45 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
MADISON, Wisconsin — Wisconsin Democrats on Monday called for the elimination of nullified language in the state's constitution that defines marriage as between a man and a woman.
Lawmakers held a news conference to introduce the resolution after the U.S. Supreme Court decision Friday legalizing gay marriage nationwide. State Reps. JoCasta Zamarripa, D-Milwaukee, and Mark Spreitzer, D-Beloit, applauded the court's decision and said Wisconsin's constitution should be amended to reflect it.
"Finally victory is ours, but with this bill we want to ensure that our beloved state of Wisconsin is on the right side of history by removing this discriminatory language from our constitution," Zamarripa said.
The measure is largely symbolic because a federal appeals court struck down the state's same-sex marriage ban last year. But Spreitzer said it's important to give voters an opportunity to amend the constitution. Voters in 2006 amended the constitution to include the definition.
"Even though it's not enforceable, it would really be embarrassing to the state of Wisconsin if this language continued to be part of our constitution," Spreitzer said. "We really need to give the opportunity to show that the voters have changed their minds.".....................
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"....Sixty-two percent of white evangelical Protestants and 54 percent of non-white Protestants oppose same-sex marriage, according to the Public Religion Research Institute."....." Source
It is just never enough, is it?
Never, ever.
It doesn’t surprise me that Wisconsin state lawmakers evidently don’t understand that the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect gay “marriage” as a right any more than the low-information citizens who elected probably do.
Leave it in. May get to use it in the future.
This has absolutely nothing to do with voters changing their minds.
April 3, 2015
Listening to Gov. Scott Walker, the kerfuffle over the religious beliefs of an Indiana pizzeria owner are much ado about nothing.
“I just think this is people who are chronically looking for ways to be upset about things instead of really looking at what it is,” Walker said of the media and activists bringing attention to it.
He blamed national media for adding to the “hype and hysteria” in the discussion with WTMJ host Charlie Sykes.
He made it clear he wasn’t backing down from the issue, saying, “I believe protecting religious freedom is inherent in our state constitution.
“Heck, it’s inherent in our U.S. Constitution. And in Wisconsin we’ve done it and we’re stronger for it.”
Asked if he would sign a bill similar to the one in Indiana, the governor responded, “We don’t need to. In Wisconsin we have it in our constitution. That’s the remarkable thing, for all the hype, particularly in the media, here in Wisconsin we have it in the constitution. It’s even more entrenched than anything that could be in the state statutes.”
Walker’s comments are in response to a Walkerton, Indiana pizzeria being targeted by progressives, forcing the owners to temporarily to shut down.
A high school coach threatened to burn Memories Pizza down, according to Fox News.
In response, Americans have donated over $732,000 to support the business through a Go Fund Me page.
But they expect that no one knows this.
No. And "enough" will be hellish.
We’ll get to it on the 12th of Neveruary.
DemonRATS calls for???? LMAO...oh poor, poor sissies, they just don’t know what to do anymore...LMAO
Keep the language add historical to it and something about the supreme’s court changing the definition yada yada something that acknowledges the extremeness of the change.
This may be the flash point that gets it all started.
Since the Civil War, I’ve never seen a situation that seems more ripe to start one.
Democrats call for removing definition of marriage from Wisconsin Constitution. **roll eyes**
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
Leave our WI state constitution alone. That traditional definition of marriage was put there by consent of WI voters. Plus, no US state has defined marriage in a state constitution as anything other than man/woman. A lot of state constitutions are silent as to marriage as it was historically nothing other than man/woman, so a definition was considered unnecessary.
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