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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
You are also engaged in monumental wishful thinking about the intentions of the hard-core social conservatives among the House Republicans who rushed to introduce this bill.
S_A_M
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STP, SAM, STP.
But I wouldn't call it a rush. The amendment's text has been kicking around for a while.
Rather than debate the semantics, let me pose this challenge:
Redraft the amendment so that it accomplishes what it purportedly intended to do (by public statements). To wit: 1) Ban marriage other than between a man and a woman; 2) prohibit any state or federal court from requiring a state to offer a marriage equivalent to gay couples; 3) allow state legislatures to enact civil union laws providing the same (or similar) "incidents" of marriage to gay couples, so long as their doing so is not under compulsion of a court ruling.
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