Posted on 08/21/2004 11:37:06 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A state judge has ruled that a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex "marriages" and civil unions is unconstitutional and must be taken off the Sept. 18 ballot.
Civil District Court Judge Christopher Bruno said late Friday the proposed amendment is unconstitutional because it addresses more than one issue and would appear on a ballot that was not on a statewide election date.
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who chose the date? why was it worded like that?
Sounds like a reasonable reason. A constitutional amendment SHOULD be on a statewide ballot.
Well it would actually be better if it were on the Nov ballot along with the Presidential race and a crucial Senate race in La to replace the semi-moderate John Breaux.
Its good that they seek to ban recognition of both gay marriages and civil unions because they are really the same thing; a difference w/o a distinction. People in many states like Calif and Mass may be mollified by this semantic game, but the people of many other (possibly the majority) states would reject any public, i.e. taxpayer funded, recognition of same-sex unions.
But true to form, the left has gotten a judge to do their dirty work for them. They will do anything to thwart the will of the people.
The GOP/Right should be making a bigger issue of the role of courts, and this outrageous tactic of the Left to use them to circumvent and overturn the people, and to instead impose on them something they don't want.
Democrat sabotage... typical
"More than one issue" BS. The judge knows its intended to protect marriage. So he found a flimsy reason to knock it off the ballot. The constitutional amendment would have passed by a landslide. Liberal judges thwarting the will of the people.
Why not on the Nov 2 ballot, that is statewide, right?
Screw em. Defy the SOB.
Actually the question of "state-wide" ballot is misleading. Nov 2 is a federal election. All polling places will be open state-wide, but there are normally no state issues. The Judge is pulling this excuse, even though votes state wide will be voting. (LA state elections are always on a Saturday).
Wow! Really? In MO, whenever there's a federal election, the state, counties, and cities try to take advantage of it to try to keep the costs of the elections down. It's not unusual to have all votes for all four on a federal election.
In MO, the democrats did their best to torpedo the amendment, by forcing the vote during the primaries, rather then the general election. This was because they figured that the VRWC wouldn't bring out the vote during a primary... Were they wrong! The Amendment passed by over 70%.
Mark
The Rats in the statehouse. They knew a November ballot would draw out religiously conservative votes in huge numbers and make the pummeling Kerry gets almost embarassing.
I was wondering if the judge spent more time on his knees, than sitting on the bench? Possibly that's the reason for his ruling. I hope the good people of La. will vote massively for this admendment. Some order must be restored to humanity. The liberals think anything is ok, to bring about the downfall of America. Bush\Cheney 2004
Bill
Come on guys (et al), don't you get the core problem
here. It's partly the reporting.
We don't want to ban anything, We want to DEFINE
marriage as: between and man and a woman. Period.
Until we can frame this correctly, we lose support.
Don't any of you listen to Michael Medved????????
Long story, Short: LA has two general election days. One for state and local issues on a Saturday in OCT, an another for Federal Offices, which is the same as everywhere else, i.e. Tue after 1st Mon in Nov.
BTW: LA is also unique in that all elections are nonpartisan and no one is elected without a majority vote. All candidates of all parties run on the same ballot. If someone receives 50% plus 1, they are elected. If not, the top two have a runoff three weeks later.
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