Please, please...go to the polls next week. And vote against the "defense of marriage" amendment.
Paragraph 1 says that thou shalt not pass any law in Kansas legalizing marriage between anything but one man and one woman. Given that there's already a law against gay marriage, this is merely annoying.
Paragraph 2, however, says that thou shalt not pass any law that even RESEMBLES allowing marriage between anything but one man and one woman. Civil unions and the like will be unconstitutional in Kansas if this passes.
Kansas politicians are really trying hard to make the state look iggerant and backwards in their attempts to suck up to the far right voting bloc, but at least this is one thing we can directly vote against (unlike the creationism stuff that's coming up AGAIN).
Paragraph 1 says that thou shalt not pass any law in Kansas legalizing marriage between anything but one man and one woman. Given that there's already a law against gay marriage, this is merely annoying.
Paragraph 2, however, says that thou shalt not pass any law that even RESEMBLES allowing marriage between anything but one man and one woman. Civil unions and the like will be unconstitutional in Kansas if this passes.
Kansas politicians are really trying hard to make the state look iggerant and backwards in their attempts to suck up to the far right voting bloc, but at least this is one thing we can directly vote against (unlike the creationism stuff that's coming up AGAIN).