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Monday, February 05, 2007
Ind. Law - Another paper editorializes against SJR 7
Joining the Indianapolis Star (see the end of this ILB entry from Feb. 1) in speaking out against SJR 7, the Evansville Courier & Press ran this editorial yesterday (Sunday). It concludes:
In our view, this amendment trivializes a serious document by involving constitutional law in someone's choice of a life partner.Not only is the amendment faulty for what it might do to couples of all makeup, but it seems a weapon of demagoguery, all for political gain in a conservative state.
To that, supporters of the amendment say that it is no such thing, but rather is intended to protect traditional marriage between a man and a woman. They look at the supposed decline of the traditional American family and see this amendment as a way to hold it together.
If the latter is true, then they will miss the mark. If there is any one factor most responsible for the decline of the American family, it is heterosexual divorce. Yet no one suggests a constitutional amendment to ban divorce by married men and women as a way to stem the breakup of the family.
This proposed constitutional amendment is, at its heart, cynical in nature and deserves to be defeated.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on February 5, 2007 09:49 AM
Posted to Indiana Law