Florida's Amendment 2: Florida Is No Connecticut!
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=420A33FAB8820D4DBD14BCE74020C680?diaryId=7680by: Anthony Niedwiecki
( - promoted by Pam Spaulding)
Mon Oct 20, 2008 at 23:33:37 PM EDT
Amendment 2 essentially has two parts: one that limits marriage to opposite sex couples, and a second that prohibits the recognition of any "legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof." Before I do a series of posts about the amendment's "substantial equivalent" language, I wanted to address one of the main claims made by its proponents regarding the need to define marriage in the Florida Constitution.
The proponents of Amendment 2 repeatedly argue that a constitutional amendment limiting marriage to opposite sex couples is needed to keep Florida courts from legalizing marriage for same sex couples. They point to what happened in Connecticut just last week (and in California last May), where the Connecticut Supreme Court held the ban on marriage for same sex couples violated the Connecticut Constitution. According to a recent statement from the proponents of Amendment 2, Connecticut's decision is "the latest reminder of why we need Amendment 2."
