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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 05:19 PM Original message |
If you were to write an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that recognized the rights ... |
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BuyingThyme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 05:21 PM Response to Original message |
1. That we don't need no amendment. |
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angstlessk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 05:22 PM Response to Original message |
2. include sexual orientation and equal pay in the 14th amendment |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 05:25 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Seems to me that the Equal Protection clause of the 14th should already do that. |
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angstlessk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 05:27 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. I agree...I thought the 14 included gays, but seems I was wrong and DOMA overcame any equality |
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LooseWilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 05:27 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. Can you amend an amendment? |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 05:31 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. No, usually they just ignore them. nt |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 05:23 PM Response to Original message |
3. It would recognize all human beings... |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 05:23 PM Response to Original message |
4. Would it matter? They don't follow the darned thing now. |
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David__77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 05:24 PM Response to Original message |
5. Here... |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 05:35 PM Response to Reply #5 |
16. Nice, but, what about this ... |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
7. I dont believe they need one, (hear me out on this) |
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angstlessk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 05:32 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. see, there ya go, making sense..it ain't about sense..it is about political will |
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AntiFascist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 09:24 PM Response to Reply #7 |
33. DOMA is somewhat similar to (though be no means as extreme)... |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
10. It would be an equal rights amendments stating that nobody shall |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 05:41 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. "They have to prove that they should." This is the language I've been looking for. |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
11. Hey, just follow earlier precendents: |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 08:55 PM Response to Reply #11 |
32. Short and simple. n/t |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
13. uh, why on earth would you do that? Why would anyone do that? |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 05:46 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. I agree, but why would anyone discriminate? |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 05:33 PM Response to Original message |
15. I would say the 9th Amendment means precisely what it says and We the People don't need |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 05:55 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. I agree, but ... |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 06:20 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. I support GL rights completely but IMO those rights should not depend upon a simple majority. If so, |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 06:24 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. So, help me understand ... |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 09:46 PM Response to Reply #22 |
27. Didn't CA Supremes set a precedent by rejecting Brown's argument and saying a simple majority of the |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 03:06 AM Response to Reply #27 |
28. "... voters could take away an inalienable right?" Well, not exactly. |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 08:00 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. What is your interpretation of the following CA Supremes statement "Although the amending provisions |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 12:59 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. It means I don't know that much about the CA Constitution much less any other state's. |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 01:11 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. I'm with you on all your points. That's why I am delighted that Brown is opening the argument that |
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Mike 03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 05:58 PM Response to Original message |
20. "There shall be no ammendment other than this one that differentiates between |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
23. Actually I would cite the 14th amendment and the 1st amendment. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 07:04 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. But, apparently the President and the Attorney General believe ... |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 07:23 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. I know and of course do not agree. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 07:33 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Me neither, which is why I asked. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-13-09 10:00 PM Response to Original message |
34. It would start from the perspective of the state having no right to define gender identity |
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