Quick update on Connecticut's Question 1 to hold a constitutional convention

[Shana A]

Quick update on Connecticut's Question 1 to hold a constitutional convention
Filed by: Alex Blaze
November 2, 2008 5:00 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2008/11/connecticuts_question_1_hold_a_constitut.php 🔗

This one came up late in the game for LGBT nutmeggers. Every 20 years the question has to appear on the ballot in Connecticut to have a Constitutional Convention, and the year is this one. Since Connecticut's constitution doesn't allow for ballot initiatives, there are groups that want to write that provision into the constitution (anti-LGBT and anti-labor groups, since they're the ones who've had success with the initiative process in other states).

So this one is indirectly about us. But considering that Connecticut's supreme court legalized same-sex marriage this past year, the stakes are higher. Also too the biggest supporters of the Yes side of Question 1 include the Family Institute of Connecticut, which specifically mentions the referendum process as their goal (I wonder what they'll use those referendums for), and the Connecticut Catholic Conference, which endorsed the measure right after the Connecticut Supreme Court case that legalized same-sex marriage.

[tekla]

You would be insane to open such a debate, because it might start on some LBGT issue, but people don't care as much about that as they do about money.  Taxes, recall of elected persons, and other issues would quickly sink the LBGT deal.