Constitutional Amendment

[elwoodblues]

Ignore for a moment whether you favor gay marriage or not. Ignore whether you think there are a band of runaway judges just trying to ram gay marriage down your throat (I love that imagery, by the way.)

Is this really something that should be a constitutional amendment?

Should the Constitution be Amended to create Super-legislation, or should a Constitutional Amendment be more than that?

[Riddick]

If its for the "general welfare" then it seems as though legislators can and "should" do anything they feel, right?

[pvn]

Still waiting for the "everyone gets a pony" amendment.

[ericd]

No. I know almost nothing about the law but what "trendy" issue would be next? I assume this is just placating the base.

[DrunkHamster]

You know what would be better? If, instead of worrying about amending the constitution, legislators followed it. I say this as a Brit looking in at your whole political process, thinking WTF happened to half the stuff in the original document.

[irvman21]

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You know what would be better? If, instead of worrying about amending the constitution, legislators followed it. I say this as a Brit looking in at your whole political process, thinking WTF happened to half the stuff in the original document.

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What about the stuff that, you know, wasn't addressed in the document when it was originally written?

[elwoodblues]

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What about the stuff that, you know, wasn't addressed in the document when it was originally written?

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Like whether gays should be married or flags burned or alcohol consumed.

[Brainwalter]

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You know what would be better? If, instead of worrying about amending the constitution, legislators followed it. ... WTF happened to half the stuff in the original document.

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I could not agree more.

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

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You know what would be better? If, instead of worrying about amending the constitution, legislators followed it. I say this as a Brit looking in at your whole political process, thinking WTF happened to half the stuff in the original document.

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This *is* about what's in the original document. The Full Faith and Credit clause guarantees that if you get married in one state, the rest *must* recognize the marriage.

The only way for the rest of the States to not be forced into something they don't want by the law in Massachusetts is to amend the constitution.

This is clearly a situation unanticipated by the framers.

[Meech]

I agree with the Brit.

The constitution was not designed to ram religious dogma down the country's collective throat.