― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 05:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― aimurchie (aimurchie), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 06:16 (seventeen years ago) link
Is this sentence entirely fucked? What crazy system requires a (more or less) 25% vote to move an amendment forward?
― Casuistry (casuistry), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 06:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― friday on the porch (lfam), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 06:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― friday on the porch (lfam), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 06:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Um..gosh. it's a state by state decision. So..if this amendment gets any farther than the posing, rhetoric based place it is in, I guess it could be challenged in the state supreme court.
I think I get your point - it's a huge leap from legislation to practical applications of the law. it's a civil rights issue, I suppose.
― aimurchie (aimurchie), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 06:58 (seventeen years ago) link
BOSTON (AP) -- Lawmakers in Massachusetts, the only state where gay marriage is legal, voted Tuesday to allow a proposed constitutional amendment to move forward that would effectively ban it.
PARSE THE SENTENCE!
Follow the verbs.
― aimurchie (aimurchie), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 07:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― aimurchie (aimurchie), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 07:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― aimurchie (aimurchie), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link