'Indy Timeline' of Upcoming Events They're lining up on SJR-7...
[from Sue Swayze at VeritasRex.com]"One man stands in the way of his own flock (not to mention an entire state of voters) on an historic moral issue and they're starting to rise up. Indiana House Democrats and Republicans are reaching across the isle to show that the marriage protection amendment, SJR 7, is not a partisan issue and should be given its due.
Yesterday a bipartisan group of Indiana House members called a press conference to urge Speaker Bauer (D-South Bend) and Representative Scott Pelath (D-Michigan City) to let SJR 7 be heard and voted on. Fifty-five Representatives signed a paper in support of allowing SJR 7 due process, rather than the block that these two men have held on it all session...."
[continued at VeritasRex.com]
posted by IndyChristian @ 6:52 AM
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Neil (and Sue), I am presenting a link to a document signed by 56 law professors at 3 of our Indiana law schools who, regardless of their views of same sex marriage or even its place in the Constitution, oppose this amendment because it is poorly written:
http://www.indianaequality.org/downloads/LAW_PROFESSOR_LETTER.pdf
Passing this defective language out of the legislature, let alone adding this kind of language to our Constitution, is indefensible to all but the adamantly anti-gay, who in their tendency toward anti-gay sentiment are blind to the damage done.
Your side (Senator Hirschman in particulary) the first time around rejected discussing options for language which would have passed easily and, however objectionable to gays, would have secured at the Constitutional level the same objective of protecting the legislative ban.
This amendment over-reached and was poorly drafted. Our leading law professors, conservative and liberal alike, have problems with it. That should signal to you that it should not pass the legislature in this form. Even as a Republican I observe that Bauer and Pelath are absolutely right.
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