Virginians | Fight the Marshall/Newman Amendment

Notice Virginians or other willing volunteers:
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From Rev. Mykeru

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Although November seems far, far away, coming up just that soon will be a proposed amendment to the Virginia Constitution, known as the "Marshall/Newman Amendment" which, as the Commonwealth Coalition describes it, would "...add to our constitution language that would go well beyond prohibiting same sex marriage to prohibit any and all legal recognition of unmarried relationships, gay or straight."
The intent of the Amendment, on the surface, is to prevent civil unions between gay couples. In this case the right wing, more specifically the religious right, is willing to amend the constitution of the state of Virginia to do it. In fact, what's required is changing the Virginia Bill of Rights so that, in the Orwellian way we've almost gotten used to with this species of God-boggled nutcases and their political familiars, the rights of some of our fellow citizens will be curtailed: Not exactly the kind of thing you'd expect in a bill of rights. And not just gays and lesbians either. Invariably targeted legislation not only affects the people being aimed at, but others are bound to get caught in the crossfire. Already in other states where the same sort of measure has been passed, bad faith law has also changed the legal status of common law relationships between heterosexuals and made domestic violence protection for some women that much more difficult to attain.
In reality, what's being proposed is an Amendment that would redefine marriage and relationships to be null and void unless they followed the narrowly drawn definition of a particular subset of politically savvy and spiritually bankrupt Christian fundamentalists. Measures like this are politics as usual for the likes of Bill Frist, who wants to do the same on a national level. Why? Is there some crisis involving marriage? Like the flag, does it actually need protection? No, of course not, but if your interest is pandering to the fringe in order to maintain a margin of political power, it's the sort of thing you do.

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