All lies... elections have shown that America does not want to condone sodomy with legal status.
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The problem with this amendment is that it allows just that - the state-condoned legislation of civil unions.
Any state marriage amendment that doesn't preclude ALL marriage-like arrangements is next to worthless. The sodomites will push all the way up to the line, and if we draw the line merely at the word "marriage," and not at the substance of marriage, they WILL push all the way up to it, just as Washington state did.
Minnesota could find itself with an "everything but marriage" law, forcing private businesses and individuals to subsidize this perversion just as if fake marriage passed the legislature.