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November 8, 2006

Shameful

(Updated 7:21 pm 8 Nov.)

Virginia voters yesterday easily passed an amendment to the state constitution that defines marriage as between one man and one woman.

The proposal, which will be added to the Bill of Rights of the Virginia Constitution, outlaws same-sex marriage and civil unions, as well as domestic partnerships and any relationship between unmarried couples that approximates marriage.
(Richmond Times-Dispatch)

That's correct - it's in our Bill of Rights. Sick, ironic... shameful.

Update: There were a lot of commentaries against this amendment. Last week, David Boaz of the Cato Institute wrote:

There's never been a same-sex marriage in Virginia, and they've been outlawed by statute for more than 30 years. So why are Virginia voters being asked to vote on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage?...

The irony in Virginia is that conservatives fearful of an out-of-control judiciary are in fact inviting the judiciary to get involved in micro-managing family law...

This amendment goes too far. But even its first sentence — the ban on gay marriage — is unworthy of a state that was the birthplace of American freedom. It is a cruel irony that this amendment to restrict contract rights and exclude loving couples from the institution of marriage is to be added to Virginia's Bill of Rights, a document originally written by the great Founder George Mason.

And Virginians voted for it.

Wulf Posted by Wulf on November 8, 2006 at 06:50 AM

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...there is something terribly wrong with adding an entirely exclusionary item to a Bill of Rights.

so very, very sad.

Posted by: doinkicarus [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 9, 2006 8:58 PM

This Virginian did not vote for it. I did in fact vote for marriage; by voting against the only measure on the ballot that would ever prohibit one.

Posted by: blewsdawg [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 15, 2006 10:10 PM

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