Kansans to Decide Tuesday on Constitutional Gay Marriage Amendment

AP ^ | 4/4/05 | John Hanna

[Crackingham]

Kansas voters will decide Tuesday whether to approve a constitutional amendment prohibiting gay marriage, and the ban's supporters are using a California judge's recent ruling in favor of same-sex unions as one of their chief arguments.

Gay marriage is already banned under Kansas law, and the law is not being challenged by anyone. But supporters of the ballot measure say the ban must be put in the Kansas Constitution to insulate it from legal challenge.

In Kansas and elsewhere, that argument was bolstered when a San Francisco judge ruled March 14 that California's law against gay marriage violates the California Constitution.

"That's precisely what I would like to see prevented here in Kansas," said a supporter of the proposed amendment, Dan Robison, a retired banker and Air Force pilot from Wichita who has been married 49 years.

Kansas voters are expected to approve the gay marriage ban overwhelmingly.

Kansas would become the 18th state with such a prohibition in its constitution; 13 others approved bans just last year. Alabama, South Dakota and Tennessee plan elections next year on constitutional bans, and proposals are pending in 13 other states, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

[TheDon]

70% against redefining marriage.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Kansans vs. the "Friends of Dorothy"

[marmar]

Info You...........

[Always Right]

Kansas would become the 18th state with such a prohibition in its constitution; 13 others approved bans just last year. Alabama, South Dakota and Tennessee plan elections next year on constitutional bans, and proposals are pending in 13 other states, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

People laughed at the idea at a federal amendment to the Constitution, but the momentum on this issues is going strong.

[aynrandfreak]

What a nail-biter this will be

[srm913]

I'm looking forward to voting.

[Txsleuth]

I say, go Kansas---I just have my doubts about how it will hold up against judicial activism....

[redfog]

You silly Kansans!

Don't you know that unsophisticated voters are not allowed to decide anything on sodomiage?

Only our black-robed masters are worthy to adjudicate such penetrating issues.

[KansasConservative1]

I put my sign up next to a huge intersection this morning. I have had it in my yard for the last couple of weeks. I really want this thing to pass. As far as the activist judges, we will handle that when it happens. They may try and overturn it but they will face the wrath of a people scorned. People are getting tired of these Judges imposing their will on everyone.

[IrishCatholic]

I'd put a sign in my yard but I live so far out in the country the only person to go by is the mailman. He has been married forever. I do have a bumper sticker in the back window of my car and you can believe that I will be at the polls tomorrow voting on this. Too much is at stake to ignore this.

[Sunshine Sister]

I have my sign up too. Even thought we live outside the city we get a lot of traffic going by. I hope I made a difference. This is the very first time I have ever put up a yard sign for any purpose!

See ya at the polls!

[goldstategop]

Flyover Country sends the Democrats a message: DON'T MESS WITH OUR VALUES. And they're making it clear to judges that we, the people intend to have the final word. if they don't like it, they're invited to go jump in a lake somewhere.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[eccentric]

Question about Kansas Law: How close to a polling place can a person 'campaign,' put up a sign?

I guess if this passes, I can't married my cats, they are female, like me...more than one...wrong species.. at least incest isn't involved. lol

[longtermmemmory]

Does the Kasas amendment adress "civil unions"?

[Kuksool]

Considering that MS is 35% black, it must mean that minorities voted overwhelming for the gay marriage ban. The media likes to make opposition to gay marriage a white Christian issue. But minorities oppose it with just as much passion as the white religious right.

[longtermmemmory]

Bill Rich, a law professor at Topeka's Washburn University who opposes the Kansas proposal, said he doubts courts in other states would issue rulings similar to the one in California. In California, he said, courts have long held that the California Constitution offers greater protections than the U.S. Constitution[emphasis of professor's bias added].


Gays in Kansas warn that the measure on Tuesday's ballot could be especially oppressive.


It would not only reinforce the long-standing definition of marriage but would also declare that only unions of one man and one woman are entitled to the "rights and incidents" of marriage. That, they say, could ban civil unions and prevent companies from offering health benefits to employees' partners, gay or heterosexual.


"The consequences of this are totally unknown," said Sandra Kobets, a 55-year-old Prairie Village nurse with a female partner of nearly 11 years. "Nobody has any idea where this could go."


Since homosexuals are saying that the DEFENSE of marriage amendment is unknown, does deconstructing marriage mean a known quantity to them?

Notice how the homoadvocates resort to anecdotal examples to induce sympathy with a nurse in a "partner of 11 years".

The MSM has totally blacked out coverage of this. With the Pope front and center, it would seem this is a taylor made subject to dovetail to the discussions.

[longtermmemmory]

forgot to add:

Where are the MSM stories of the outraged Polygamists? I sure they could find two nurses who are partners to some guy for 11 years. That would make an interesting anecdote. They are just as affected by this DMA.

[Old Professer]

Gay marriage has already been established; there is no challenge to Massachusetts in all these other bills; eventually it will become a reality. Of course, the first casualty will be the institution of marriage.