Posted on 12/13/2007 12:34:48 PM PST by Cagey
Proposal Would Need 60 Percent Majority To Become Law
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Sponsors of a proposed state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in Florida said they have enough signatures to get on the November 2008 ballot.
The proposal that defines marriage as "the legal union of only one man and one woman" was offered by a coalition called Florida4Marriage.org. It needed 611,009 signatures from registered voters to go on the ballot.
The Liberty Counsel, which advocates for religious civil liberties, announced in a news release that the proposal had met the signature requirement, which was the last step to get on the ballot.
The Florida Supreme Court already has ruled that the proposal meets basic requirements of focusing only on one subject and offering voters a clear and accurate summary of what it would do.
The proposal will need a 60 percent majority at the polls to become part of the Florida Constitution.
I hope this passes....Florida has been going quite liberal in recent years
Of course, if Globalist RINOs and Business Socialists hadn’t pushed that Amendement that required 60% of a yes vote to pass a state Constitutional amendement....the gay marraige ban would easily pass in a simple majority and become Constitutional
I am sure some of the gay marraige ban supporters are kicking themselves for supporting the “60%” law
I’m a big fan of the 60% voting rule. If we had that earlier we wouldn’t have that ridiculous class size limitation, and the pig farming restrictions, and every other experiment stuck on our constitution.
We got double the amount of signatures needed to get a Constitutional Amendment on the ballot next year, but according to Bay Windows, Boston’s pre-eminent Gay magazine, the Legislature was bought and paid for.
I wonder how the left will view
“the will of the people”
on this one.... hehe.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I hope you are right. I’m afriad that the weak kneed rupublocants will cave in to the homosexual mafia. I will pray that this passes.
Hey DBM.............it’s NOT a ban, of anything!! It is an amendment to protect marriage, which is already what marriage is, that being a union between a man and a woman.
I don’t know what DBM stands for (I can imagine though), but the rest of your post makes all the sense in the world.
It will pass with more than 60%. A similar amendment passed in Oregon by 57%, and Oregon is much more liberal than Florida.
I hope they have better luck than the voters of MA had. We’ve had the needed signatures for years, but the weenies in the Democrat dominated legislature will NOT allow it the question to be placed on the ballot. I guess they don’t want to make the homosexual activists mad and lose their campaign contributions.
DBM-Drive by Media. Per Rush.
According to the gay activists, the marriage question is a matter of “civil rights” and we shouldn’t be voting on issues of “civil rights” ever. Not that I agree, but that’s what they say. That’s why they twisted arms in the Mass. legislature to kill the vote of the people there. They sincerely believe that once a judge grants a “civil right”, that it shouldn’t ever be subject to a mere vote of the people or their elected representatives.
Because what most of the people want is completely different from what the gay activists want.
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