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Floridians! Say No to Amendment 2

      QuestionGirl     May 12th, 2008 - 9:41 am    

Amendment 2, known as the Florida Marriage Protection Act, will be on the November ballot. The amendment states:

“Inasmuch as a marriage is the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife, no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized.”

This is being sold as a ban on gay marriage, but it will also take away the rights of domestic partners. To be sure, there are many senior citizens in Florida in domestic partner relationships. We need to be strong and start fighting hard in Florida to get these nuts who waste time and our tax dollars on this kind of legislation out of office

What impact will it have on Florida residents?

The ballot language is written in very broad terms that will be interpreted by our courts. Possible scenarios can include the termination of all domestic partner registries in the state. Domestic Partner registries provide for hospital visitation rights.

When the state of Michigan passed similar language, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that the state’s constitutional amendment banning same’sex marriage prevents public institutions from providing benefits to domestic partners employed by those institutions.

In our own state, the Florida Legislature Office of Economic and Demographic Research clearly denotes the possibility of losing domestic partner registries, the loss of recognized common law marriages and other consequences affecting both same’sex and opposite sex couples.

For more information on fighting this amendment go to Florida Red and Blue, a non partisan campaign against this amendment.

2 Responses to “Floridians! Say No to Amendment 2”

  1. Batocchio Says:

    Live in sin no more! We want to control your lives! And um, trying that sort of BS ain’t sin, it’s “righteous”!

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