{"id":20075,"date":"2011-05-19T06:02:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T12:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20075"},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:22:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T11:22:29","slug":"why-the-marriage-amendment-is-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20075","title":{"rendered":"Why The Marriage Amendment Is A Bad Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Constitutions don&#8217;t, and aren&#8217;t supposed to, exist at the same level of majestic purity as the United States Constitution. The process to amend the US Constitution is intentionally very, very difficult &#8211; because its intention is to define, at a high level, the relationship between (plug your ears, Liberals &#8211; your unions and professors will spank you even for reading this) \u00a0a free association of equals and a government constituted of, by and for them. \u00a0 <em>Not <\/em>to nail down every nuance of that relationship.<\/p>\n<p>The US Constitution reserves powers to the states &#8211; and those powers are laid out in the various State Constitutions.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that defining marriage &#8211; even into a form that we social conservatives approve of &#8211; is a dangerous one; we are one DFL sweep away from having them repeal the amendment and put forth one requiring all people to become civil partners with their dogs, with power of attorney.<\/p>\n<p>Government, as a rule, at all levels, should butt out of peoples&#8217; personal lives. \u00a0Including their marriages. \u00a0The family has survived for millenia as the bedrock of civilization, <em>without <\/em>government to define it. \u00a0It in its genuine form will survive government as well.<\/p>\n<p>Will it survive government&#8217;s attempt to define it? \u00a0When has that\u00a0<em>ever <\/em>worked?<\/p>\n<p>And Rep. John Kriesel makes a good point; while the referendum exists for a reason, people shouldn&#8217;t have a right to vote about what people do with their personal lives &#8211; provided it doesn&#8217;t harm others, and by &#8220;harm&#8221; we mean literally and tangibly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Constitutions don&#8217;t, and aren&#8217;t supposed to, exist at the same level of majestic purity as the United States Constitution. The process to amend the US Constitution is intentionally very, very difficult &#8211; because its intention is to define, at a high level, the relationship between (plug your ears, Liberals &#8211; your unions and professors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20075"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20080,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20075\/revisions\/20080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}