When misguided and thoughtless Wisconsin voters were placing discrimination into the state constitution in November 2006 with the passage of the anti-gay marriage amendment, the smarter folks in Arizona were rejecting the same type of amendment. The fact that one state could prove to the rest of the country that anti-gay politics need not win was praised by many. But hate and bigotry promoters such as Rep. Steve Yarbrough, R-Chandler are forcing the issue to come back to the voters of Arizona, perhaps as soon as this fall.
The state House voted 33-25 this afternoon to ask voters to constitutionally bar gays from being wed.
Backers of SCR 1042 acknowledged state law already limits marriage in Arizona to one man and one woman. That law has been upheld by the state Court of Appeals, a decision the state Supreme Court refused to disturb.
But Rep. Steve Yarbrough, R-Chandler, said only by putting the provision into the state constitution can foes of same-sex weddings ensure that a future court — or a future Legislature — cannot decide otherwise.
What precisely is Yarbrough afraid of? Is he so insecure with his own marriage that he fears other loving couples might send his slipping of the cliff?
As my readers might suspect the passage was along party lines.
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