Ohio State Issue 1

***Originally Posted to Modern Politics and You***

Guess what's going to be on the Ohio ballot on Nov. 2nd...

Issue 1. Proposed Consititutional Amendment -- State of Ohio (Proposed by Initiative Petition - A majority yes vote is necessary for passage)

Be it Resolved by the People of the State of Ohio:

That the Constitution of the State of Ohio be amended by adopting a section to be designated as Section 11 of Article XV thereof, to read as follows:

Article XV

Section 11. Only a union between one man and one woman may be a marriage valid in or recognized by this state and its political subdivisions. This state and its political subdivisions shall not create or recognize a legal status for relationships of unmarried individuals that intends to approximate the design, qualities, significance or effect of marriage.

This has got to be one of the stupidest ideas this state has ever had (and we've had many). Now, the first sentence is simply the standard boilerplate banning of gay marriage. That's bad enough, but the second sentence really takes the cake. Look carefully at that...It would ban, in the State of Ohio, any kind of civil union for anyone. Not just civil unions between homosexuals, but any kind of civil unions. So, as I understand this, it would ban any sort of law about common law marriages.

This is assinine.

Now, I can see where people, with their cultural ties to religious traditions, would want to restrict the tradition of marriage to heterosexuals. I understand that argument, and I think it's a load of crap, but I get the idea.

However, these dodos that want to ban civil unions have lost their minds. That crosses the line from a cultural argument to an argument built purely on hate.

On the one hand, I'm a little worried this made it on the ballot, but on the other hand, my no vote of this abomination is a real opportunity to tell the religious right to go fark themselves.