Same-Sex Marriage Amendment In Ohio Gets Green Light. Rave If you support gay marriage
Marriage equality advocates in Ohio took one step closer Tuesday to overturning the state's 2004 constitutional amendment that restricts marriages in the state to only those between one man and one woman.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) approved the petition language for an amendment that would redefine marriage in Ohio as “a union of two consenting adults, regardless of gender," according to the Columbus Dispatch.
The Freedom to Marry Coalition is now tasked with gathering 385,253 valid signatures of registered Ohio voters in order to put its marriage equality amendment on the Ohio ballot -- a goal that Ian James, the group's co-founder, told The Huffington Post he hopes to achieve by November 2013.
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"Marriage" is a religious concept, and has no place in our government.
What are you talking about?!
"According to the Supreme Court, Marriage is a fundamental right, as ruled in Zablocki v. Redhail (1978). Also, the Supreme Court recognized in 1967 that the freedom to marry is “essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness".
And the government does stand by it. Well, mostly, anyways.
Different world, different times.
You shouldn't cite a precedent when the originators would argue it doesn't apply.
At this time, I believe it would be appropriate for the government to get out of the marriage business.
And why should it? The government, in this case, is just trying to please everyone, especially homosexuals, for a right they deserve.
People abuse it constantly.
People deserve very little.
They earn what they will in life.
The idea that we all "deserve" this or that is what's led to the entitlement mentality in this country.
its an unconstitutional amendment anyway, under the separate but equal precedent.
Reducing the size and cost of federal, state and city government, close off our southern border, stop the illegals who are stealing goods and services from america..
IT'S THE ECONOMY STUPID. ya lawmakers have got to correct the american economy
while you still can.
I also worry about when it will be compulsory to be homosexual.
you are saying you are afraid your church will force you into homosexual acts?
were you an alter boy in the Catholic Church, by any chance?
My fear is not the effect the church will have on me, rather that as a nation we are being forced, by silly lily livered human rights creeps who insist on normal people having the right to maintain the standards and norms that made a sound nation fall to its knees to satisfy the latest fashion in sexual prowess.
FYI, I came to Christianity aged 47 and I am not a Catholic.
its not a skill any more than hetero sex is a skill... which it is btw.
what "standard" are you being forced to accept? how does the manner in which someone else expresses their love and affection for another human being have ANY effect on you or anyone else?
Well I didn't know that.
Is this an American development?
Although we do have asses, personaly I think it will be sheep or goats.
Also, one of the commanments states that you should love your neighbor like you love yourself. And you're clearly not loving homosexuals as you'd love yourself, for I find it impossible for you to find yourself "disgusting".
Back to judging, you are to judge, but righteously,
I didn't say that, either; now it is YOU who is twisting my words.
The Bible IS symbolic. If not, explain to me the book of Apocalypse.
No, you are not. The difference between right and wrong is established by one, and it is not the same for others. Therefore, it isn't sure whether one is judging righteously or not. So why say so?