MO Amendment 2

August 4th, 2004 Chris Posted in Uncategorized |

passed last night overwhelmingly (70% yes). Between the bigoted voters and the wacko-conservative Republicans in the State Legislature, this state is going down the tubes. I am so getting out of state for grad school…

“Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
– Helen Keller

2 Responses to “MO Amendment 2”

  1. Ron Says:
    August 4th, 2004 at 5:50 pm

    Good news from Seattle Washington, A court declared that the gay marriage ban was unconstitutional in Seattle. This should set a good precedent if it continues in higher courts there.

  2. Chris Says:
    August 5th, 2004 at 1:51 am

    As I understand it, the problem here is that it’s now written into the state constitution. State Justices’ jobs are to interpret the constitution. It’s impossible for them to rule on the constitutionality of the constitution.

    The thing that could help out the cause is the Full Faith and Credit clause, which essentially means that federal laws trump state laws and that therefore parts of state constitutions can be overturned by federal laws or decisions. Of course, there’s no precedent at the moment that would go against this amendment, but we can hope.

    (law junkies, please correct me if I missed any of the specifics here…)