Michigan legislative action thread
It doesn't matter how many times they declare a vast swing in opinion since passing the ban. If it were true that we want gay marriage it would end up on the ballot one way or another but they can't.
Are these AGs arguing that not only is marriage a 10th Amendment-protected state power issue, but that the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect so-called LGBT issues? The states are therefore free to make laws which prohibit constitutionally unprotected gay marriage as long as such laws don’t unreasonably abridge constitutionally enumerated protections.
Oregon voters said marriage was between a man and a woman.
Somebody took it to court and the Oregon AG could not grasp the concept and did not defend it.
Oregon voters vote one way on referendums & then vote for people who will counter their wishes. Terminal stupidity.
“because the federal Constitution is silent on the definition of marriage”
Yea, well the federal Constitution is silent on the issue of amount of water in my toilet bowl also. But that hasn’t stopped them.
The federal Constitution is silent on the type of light bulbs I use also, but that hasn’t stopped them there either.
The federal Constitution is silent on how fast ketchup should flow out of the bottle, but hasn’t stopped there either.
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfCFR/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=155.194
The federal Constitution will not stop any of the tyrannical abuses that the dictator of the day will want to impose on us....
The real "big swing" seems to the decision of mega-corporations to promote homosexuality.