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« Israel War News Sources | Main | My Real Age » July 15, 2006Marriage Definition Amendment Goes To Voters
Tennessee residents will be allowed to decide whether to amend the state constitution to include a ban on gay marriage, according to a state Supreme Court decision filed Friday that rejected an appeal to keep it off the ballot.The proposed amendment doesn't ban anything. It establishes in the constitutional what has long been established in society and in common Tennessee legal practice - marriage is an arrangement involving one man and one woman. If the amendment passes, it will not take away anybody's rights. If it becomes law, gays and lesbians will have the same exact right as all other adults in Tennessee do, and the same right they have currently: to marry one person of the opposite gender. Posted in Tennessee Government News
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"If it becomes law, gays and lesbians will have the same exact right as all other adults in Tennessee do, and the same right they have currently: to marry one person of the opposite gender." But gays and lesbians still won't have the right to marry the person they love. Posted by: Badgerhead at July 15, 2006 6:50 PMLove is not an issue for the law or constitution. If you love someone who is already married, you don't have the right to marry them until they are no longer married. If you love your dog you don't have the right to marry it. If a man loves three women, he doesn't have the right to marry all of them. If we had a constitution that said you have the right to marry whom you love, then not only would gay marriage be legal, but also so would be polygamy. And marrying children. And marrying animals. The proposed constitutional amendment does not change what we have now: a single equal right for all adults - the right to be married to one person of the opposite gender. Posted by: BIll Hobbs at July 16, 2006 7:49 AMSorry, I don't buy the slippery slope argument (first it's gays, then it's dogs). There is fixed standard that wouldn't change: a monagamous union between two adults. (That would exclude marrying a dog, three women or a 10-year-old child.) Gays and lesbians are seeking to embrace monagamy, and it defies logic to push them away. P.S. - Wisconsin may be the first state to reject an anti-gay marriage referendum. Libertarian Ed Thompson of Tomah, brother of former Wisconsin Gov. and Secretary of Human Services Tommy Thompson, is leading the charge against Wisconsin's amendment, which is even in the polls. I sense the ground shifting on this one. Posted by: Badgerhead at July 16, 2006 10:07 AMPost a comment
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The Saturday Tennessean reports on the failure of the Tennessee ACLU to prevent you from voting on a proposed constitutional amendment to define marriage in the state constitution.