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haele

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6. A Heterosexual only "Marriage Recognition" constitutional convention is being floated...
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 05:10 PM
Mar 2017

I do know the Arkansas House has pushed a bill through putting a vote on the ballot. Probably a few other state houses are considering the same.

But no state has actually yet held an actual vote on it - and the public ballot is required for something like this in most states. That's how they kept the ERA from getting approved...

I s'pose there's also an Anti-Abortion and a "Right to Religious Convictions in Public" constitutional convention also being considered, but again, no state has voted on it.
The problem I see is that a lot of Reich Wing States are going to try to use Constitutional votes like this as a Lost Souls GOTV effort to try and keep their majorities to continue to bleed their constituents into submission.

So again, the Dems really need to get their ground game together for 2018...

Haele

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