According to CNN, the recently passed ammendment banning same-sex marriages was overturned. Sadly, it was overturned because of a technicality: in Lousiana, constitutional ammendments are restricted to one issue and this one had two: banning gay marriage and also banning civil unions.
It will be appealed, of course, but at least one state’s attempt to discriminate against it’s citizens has been blocked.
The House voted today on the proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. As expected it failed. The sad part is that it still had a majority though not the 2/3 majority needed.
Somehow the arguments against same-sex marriage just don’t make any sense.
Take, for example, Marilin Musgrave, a republican from Colorado who denounced activist judges that impose their will against the will of the people. Isn’t it the job of a judge to act according to our laws and constitution even when that acts against a popular viewpoint? If it weren’t for these “activist” judges, would blacks have no legal recourse against segregation? Would mixed-race marriages still be illegal? The “activist” judges argument is just noise for complaining about a judge that makes a decision that she doesn’t like.
How does any same-sex marriage hurt or diminish any heterosexual marriage? It doesn’t. Instead it strengthens family by protecting children and gives couples a way to formally tie their lives together.
Congress should be voting on an amendment to allow same-sex marriages. That would be the right and proper thing to do.
