A little politicking in case any Kansans are reading this

[dvandom]

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).

Comments

[z4nd4r.livejournal.com]

Wow. yes they are.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Gonna try, but sometimes this state is so red I feel like a time-traveller. Hysteria and fear seem to be the coin of the realm in the new heartland, and I can't find it in me to apologize for my bankruptcy. I could light a candle and curse the darkness, but I fear the sun has just set.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Addendum: paragraph 2 is even more sweeping. It forbids the benefits of marriage be extended to any couple that isn't married. So no health care for opposite sex live-in partners. Unlike Ohio, however, it doesn't seem that this will get people out of domestic abuse charges.

[foomf.livejournal.com]

If they really want to 'defend' marriage, then they need to make it impossible to divorce.

Period.

Yeah, spousal abuse - they stay married, but the abuser has to support the abusee, for life, from prison.

And the penalty for adultery? Neuter the responsible parties.

That would certainly defend marriage a lot better than any of this bigoted crapfest that we're seeing everywhere lately.