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01.13.2009 2:28pm EST
(Cheyenne, Wyoming) Legislation to amend the Wyoming constitution to bar same-sex marriage was filed Tuesday on the opening day of the new session of the legislature.
A similar attempt passed the Senate two years ago but died in the House.Wyoming already has a law limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples, but state Sen. Curt Meier (R), the amendment’s main sponsor, said the law is not sufficient.
“We need to allow the voters of Wyoming to determine the definition of marriage,” Meier said. “Most people want to protect the future of marriage, and the people of Wyoming deserve a chance to vote on it.”
The proposed amendment would define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
It would need a two-thirds vote in each house of the legislature and then be signed by the governor in order to make it onto the ballot.
Most Democrats said they would vote against the measure.
The legislature’s winter session will last only two months and with a worsening economic picture for the state, most observers say they believe the amendment may not make it to a vote.
I guess “Brokeback Mountain” finally made it to a theater in Wyoming.
Another pathetic red state! They gave us nothing but the vile Cheney. They might have natural beauty but the majority of people there are truly ugly and hateful. Rest in peace Matthew Sheppard.
what else is new, allowing the citizens of a state to determine the civil rights of a minority? SO Pathetic!!
Wyoming … where the men wear button-fly Levis ™, ’cause the sheep can hear a zipper a MILE away!
Interesting that this state, branded as one of hate and violence, still doesn’t get it. With all of the current problems with the economy, health care, and so many others, this state legislator still has time for a hate bill. Incredible!
What would you expect from the state that bought us Dick Cheney???
I’m so damn sick of people being allowed to vote on our lives. This is just plain wrong. Uphold the Constitution! Stop this!
I think it needs to so to the Supreme c
Court,by passing every state and just make gay marriage legal everywhere!
I think we should propose constitutional amendments in all 50 states that define marriage as a legal union between a man and a woman for the purpose of procreation. Once passed we can all pursue legal actions to invalidate the marriages of those couples who use birth control or otherwise choose not to have children and those that are infertile, including people who have passed their biological childbearing years and refuse to accept treatment to extend their fertility in pursuit of conception. Maybe then people will get it.
California Atty General in opposing Prop 8 says that inalienable rights like the rights to life and liberty and not subject to votes. The public cannot vote away inalienable rights.
He has argued that the inalienable rights are pre-constitutional. For example, the Preamble to the US Constitution expressly states that is was written “to secure the Blessings of Liberty,” one of the inalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence.
One should note that the constitution does not create inalienable rights, but that constitutions are written to secure the blessings of the inalienable rights. In other words, they exist prior to the constitutions being written. This line of political philosophy protects all individuals including Gay individuals in their inalienable rights which the majority is powerless to vote away.
The Atty Gen’s argument is supported by the fact that American is a Republic and not a democracy.
Gays should pay more attention to the California Atty General. The inalienable rights to life and liberty provide a much more solid legal and social basis to protect us as we go about our individual lives.
Gee, I’m shocked.
From the state that brought you the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard! Truly pathetic.
From the state that brought you not only the tragic murder of Matthew Shepard, but the state where the catholic church tried to warp the jury to get their murderous criminals off scott free.
One of the major enemies of humanity resides in Rome. Allah – are you listening to me? Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
If you want another example of religious madness, about 6-9 mos ago, some ultra orthodox members of Parliment in Israel called gays “equivalent to bird flu.” This is nothing but a call for extermination of gay people by cousins removed a couple times of those who went up Germany’s smokestacks. And those Jews shared the ovens with Germany’s gays.
conservative religions should be banished from the face of the earth. And my wife now sees understands what I mean when I said – no way in hell are we going to that accursed land to visit it, a nation that lets these creeps live there. Trade them to the Arabs for Israeli prisoners or whatever.
PS – we are Jewish, though by the end of the year I will join the UU church. I ask that my parents not roll over in their graves.