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Posted on 10/01/2020 4:07:33 PM PDT by Ennis85
Voters in Nevada will decide in November whether to change the text of the state Constitution to remove language defining marriage as a union between only one man and one woman.
Nevada is one of the about 30 states that passed a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage before such rules were struck down by the 2015 Supreme Court decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, which established a right to same-sex marriage nationwide.
However, the text of the amendment remains in the Nevada Constitution even though it is unenforceable.
In 2017, former Assemblyman Nelson Araujo and state Sen. David Parks, both Democrats, introduced Joint Resolution 2, which would “amend Section 21 of Article 1 of the Nevada Constitution” to reflect the fact that the Obergefell decision made it unenforceable.
Last year, the Nevada legislature voted so that the question will appear on the ballot as Question 2 this fall.
If Question 2 passes, the text of Section 21 of Article 1 of the Nevada Constitution will be revised to read “The State of Nevada and its political subdivisions shall recognize marriages and issue marriage licenses to couples regardless of gender.”
The language offers a caveat that “Religious organizations and members of the clergy have the right to refuse to solemnize a marriage, and no person has the right to make any claim against a religious organization or member of the clergy for such a refusal.”
The proposal stresses that “all legally valid marriages must be treated equally under the law.”
Supporters of Question 2 include the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, the pro-LGBT advocacy organization Human Rights Campaign and Planned Parenthood Advocates.
Proponents formed the “Yes on Question 2” coalition earlier this month.
According to Ballotpedia, Nevada is the first state to leave it up to voters to repeal a constitutional amendment that bars same-sex marriage or defines marriage as between one man and one woman.
According to a 2017 poll conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute, 70% of Nevadans support same-sex marriage while 23% oppose it.
Nevada’s Question 2 is one of several high-profile ballot initiatives that voters will have the opportunity to weigh in on this fall.
In another western state, Colorado, voters will decide the fate of Proposition 115, which would ban abortions after 22 weeks of gestation.
Currently, Colorado is one of only seven states that does not have any restrictions on abortion.
In Louisiana, voters will weigh in on Amendment 1, which, if passed, will add language to the state Constitution declaring that “nothing in this constitution shall be construed to secure or protect a right to abortion or require the funding of abortion.”
Similar measures passed in West Virginia and Alabama in 2018.
Residents of Arizona, Montana, New Jersey and South Dakota will vote on the legalization of recreational marijuana, while Mississippi voters will decide whether or not to approve the legalization of medical marijuana in their state.
Californians will vote on a ballot measure that would overturn Proposition 209, the 1996 ballot initiative supported by a majority of the state’s voters that prevented the use of race as a factor when considering employment applications and university admissions.
But can I marry my little pony?
Who moves from a pony country to a non pony country...... Seinfeld
Cool.~sarc
The people will vote against it but some judge will overturn it and the vote won’t matter.
Karl Marx will be proud of them.
What is next? the definition of any word they deem necessary? Truth, Murder, Taxes? Money? Anything is on the table now....
Has this been approved in Salt Lake City?
Why vote on these issue at all when a bare majority of ONE JUDGE can disregard tens of millions of voters?
So Ruth Ginsberg’s still speaking I see....this was one of her passions.
So Ruth Ginsberg’s still speaking I see....this was one of her passions.
I do think it’s reasoned to let 2.00% of the populace
dictate to the 98% how things should be labeled.
Isn’t that reasoned?
/s
“Do you, IT, take IT to be your lawful husband, wife, It or Binary Thing?
Uncle IT wants to know. Send your reply to “The Adams Family Castle”, Castle, Delaware and Harry Reid’s second home at the old Mustang Ranch (the boy does loves to horse around).
The citizens of the state will vote to keep it.
A judge will issue a ruling that it must be removed.
That’s how leftists always get their way.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
In stark contrast to the early states ratifying the express rights famously protected by the Bill of Rights to the Constitution in full compliance with the Constitution’s Article V amendment process, the institutionally indoctrinated, state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices of the misguided Roberts Court wrongly ignored the will of the Article V state supermajority when it decided Obergefell v. Hodges against the states, scandalously politically “amending” the phony constitutional “right” to gay “marriage” to the Constitution from the bench by doing so.
The Roberts Supreme Court got away with trampling the 10th Amendment (10A) because it knew that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification, likewise anti-10A Congress wouldn’t lift a finger to protect state sovereignty by impeaching and removing activist justices.
Congress has failed to protect the states with many politically correct, Democratic vote-winning “rights” established by judicial tyranny, the politically correct “right” to murder unborn Democrats another infamous example. (Is it any wonder that unthinking, desperate Dems are once again trying to cheat the ballot box?)
The remedy for the unconstitutionally big federal government trampling patriots and their states under its boots…
Send "Orange Man Bad" federal and state government desperate Democrats home in November!
Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a "third term" in office imo.
I don’t see any problem with voting Republican ticket for 2020 elections.
Insights welcome.
Uh, No!
Leave it. The decision may soon move to the states where it should’ve been in the first place.
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I live in Nevada, and I am voting NO on all the Legislative items.
I live in Nevada, and I am voting NO on all the Legislative items.
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This, because they were all passed by the commie legislature.
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