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by QuestionGirl • 9:41 am
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Amendment 2, known as the Florida Marriage Protection Act, will be on the November ballot. The amendment states:
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?
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.
