Early voting started yesterday--only two more weeks until I get my Tuesdays and Sunday mornings back :) Yay! Take away my (technically nonexistent) rights, just give me back my free time!
One of the wackier aspects of the anti-gay-marriage amendment--because 1) lawyers are a perverse and twisting breed, and 2) the amendment was written as stupidly as possible so that it couldn't be discomprehended, it could be argued that it invalidates all marriages.
http://www.savetexasmarriage.com/
has more details, but it boils down to "Let Marriage = X, but all cases of X are invalid." Now, the spirit of the law assumes that Marriage is the only valid case of X, but it would require only minimal stress to the law to create a bad technicality for some, oh, say, commonlaw couple.
Aaanyway...please vote! And please encourage other people to vote :)
Best,
Jacob
One of the wackier aspects of the anti-gay-marriage amendment--because 1) lawyers are a perverse and twisting breed, and 2) the amendment was written as stupidly as possible so that it couldn't be discomprehended, it could be argued that it invalidates all marriages.
http://www.savetexasmarriage.com/
has more details, but it boils down to "Let Marriage = X, but all cases of X are invalid." Now, the spirit of the law assumes that Marriage is the only valid case of X, but it would require only minimal stress to the law to create a bad technicality for some, oh, say, commonlaw couple.
Aaanyway...please vote! And please encourage other people to vote :)
Best,
Jacob
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Because Governor Perry is married.
And that would be illegal. =)
*frown*
But it is an interesting problem. I got a phone-bot call that sounded like a member of the religious right, but it was on our side, saying what shady lawyers would do with this legislation if it went through.
I don't think you can anymore this year :( But hie thee to the post office for the next ballot!