Indiana Advances Gay-Marriage Ban

[DonViejo]

The Indiana House of Representatives voted Tuesday to send a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage to its state senate. If approved, Hoosiers would vote on the measure in 2016. Indiana law already bans same-sex marriage, but supporters want that to be enshrined in the state's constitution. In a very small victory for gay-rights activists, several Republicans bucked party leadership to remove language that would have also banned civil unions.

Read it at The Indianapolis Star
January 28, 2014 3:25 PM

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/01/28/indiana-advances-gay-marriage-ban.html

[theHandpuppet]

1. Thanks to 300 members of the Indiana clergy who stood in opposition...

... to this amendment.

http://www.iconin.org/legislative-letters/opposition-to-a-constitutional-amendment-defining-marriage/

Small excerpt from the letter:

The proposed “Marriage Amendment” would strip civil rights from committed same-gender couples. As many of us affirmed when supporting legislation to prevent sexual orientation discrimination in the workplace, public accommodations, and housing; each of our faith traditions emphasizes justice. For our society to be just, the civil rights of all people, even those with whom we may disagree, must be protected. We should not be writing discrimination into our State Constitution. This fact alone merits rejection of the Marriage Amendment.

[RoverSuswade]

2. The Indiana legislature is a bunch of Cro-Magnons.

Conservative/Tea Party GOPpers have a super majority in both houses. The state of Indiana should just move and squeeze itself between Alabama and Mississippi.