Catholic Archbishop: Change Constitution to Ban Same-Sex Marriage

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40. It's an issue, not a partisan election. I remember in the late 90s, my Senior Executive Service

Office Chief (I'm civil service) came back from a meeting all steamed because someone wore an "Impeach Clinton" button in a meeting. He asked me if that was legal & I told him I'd find out the answer. I called our designated Ethics Office and they referred me to the US Office of Special Counsel (different from the Ken Starr organization). OSC works hand in hand with the Merit Systems Protection Board to insulate the civil service from partisan politics and keep merit principals paramount in civil service hiring, promotions, assignments and terminations.

OSC told me that advocating or opposing impeachment by wearing a button was non-partisan, not disruptive and protected. That Bill Clinton was no longer a candidate in any partisan election mattered and they said impeachment is a Constitutional process, not a partisan one.

I told my boss the answer. He was not really happy about it but understood the explanation.

So all the folks in this thread proposing constitutional changes to tax churches, are you ready for a good-old fashioned constitutional convention where it's one-state, one vote and Congress & the President aren't involved? My intuition is that there is more to lose than gain.