Nevada considers deleting marriage ban from constitution

[DonViejo]

Source: Associated Press



By ALISON NOON, The Associated Press · Wednesday, February 22, 2017

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — While some states debate ways to limit how gay couples benefit from the national legalization of same-sex marriage, Nevada became the latest state to take aim at the last vestiges of defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Joined by gay couples and their families, Democratic lawmakers back in control of the Nevada Legislature want to delete a now-defunct gay marriage ban in the Nevada Constitution.

The U.S. Supreme Court decided in June 2015 that failing to provide or recognize gay marriages violates rights to due process and equal protection.

Pam Roberts, who spoke in support of the bill and was accompanied by her wife and two sons at a legislative hearing Tuesday, said keeping the ban language means Nevada would automatically reinstate the discriminatory policy should a conservative high court someday overturn the decision that Supreme Court justices approved 5-4.

Read more: http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/02/nevada-considers-deleting-marriage-ban-constitution/

[Ligyron]

1. Hmmm, maybe they might consider letting Nevada join Cascadia.

[Initech]

2. The sooner we drop these barbaric "moral values", the better!

[riversedge]

3. I hope they are successful.

[secondwind]

4. Go Nevada!!! n/t

[noneof_theabove]

5. No Dog In The Race...

when will the idiot congress-critters and judicial get a clue on how it works.

In a court you have to a "party" to plaintiff or defendant.
This determines a lot of issues.

Marriage - between the two people getting the legal papers, but ceremony is religious so the count registrar/judge does that.
Parties: no other

Abortion - the woman
Parties: father if know and willing to participate, doctor, religious minister if applicable.

Pot - nobody if you do it on your property/house and are not driving under influence or being a public asshat.
[remember drunks run red light, high people sit thru green lights]

And read why the United Churches and Corperations of America is 21 of 167, also the second loser in the 2nd catagory "failed democracies"
Japan 20, Norway 1, Canada 6, Germany 13, Malta 15 and Mauritius 18 [who are they?] and Uruguay 19.

Document is Democracy Index 2016 by Economist Intelligence Unit
find it in web search. BTW, EIU is is UK based.