Marriage rights

[ravan]

Vermont, Iowa, DC, now Maine. Why is Californika so backward? Massive political propaganda efforts by the LDS and Catholic churches.

How do I get a ballot prop to shitcan Prop 8 on the ballot in 2010?? Something like:

"SECTION 1. Title This measure shall be known and may be cited as the "California Marriage Equality Act."

SECTION 2. Change Section 7.5 of Article I of the California Constitution, to read:

SEC. 7.5. All marriages between two consenting adults are equally valid and recognized in California. "

If this won't pass, then remove the word "marriage" from all California state laws and Constitution. If "marriage" is a religious institution to be "protected", then it has no business in US or State law, because of the First Amendment. If it's civil, then religious biases against it are moot.

Comments

[ravan.livejournal.com]

The reason I made it two is that the tax code would have to be extensively reworked to allow for poly marriages. Two can be done with the existing tax code.

Now, if the special treatment of marriage under the tax code was eliminated, or changed to be more along the lines of partnership and corporate taxes, then it could be done.

[elf]

The amendment doesn't need the word "two," and leaving it out allows for the possibility of poly marriages later. Marriage is elsewhere defined as involve two people.

[ravan.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, that might work.