South Carolina Amends Constitution to Ban Gay Marriage
Written by Sam on March 24th, 2007
South Carolina officially banned gay marriage Thursday as legislative leaders ratified a constitutional amendment approved by voters in November.
The state was among seven others that voted for similar bans on the ballot last year.
House Speaker Bobby Harrell and Senate President Pro Tem Glenn McConnell met Thursday to ratify the act. The constitution now reads, “a marriage between one man and one woman is the only lawful domestic union that shall be valid or recognized in this state.”
It prevents the state and local governments from legalizing any sort of domestic union of gay couples or recognizing those made in other states.
This is the way it should be done. Each state should decide their own restrictions based on the will of the people in that state. The Federal Marriage Amendment was nothing but a bate and hook for conservatives to come out and vote for Republicans. The Feds knew it had no hope of passing.
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So why can’t judges respect the will of the people? Since when does recent legal precedent trump words that haven’t changed for over 3 millenia? Words 2 millenia old have turned homosexuals into monogamous heterosexuals, sounds like Providential intervention into lives of people who want help from their creator to me.
A marriage amendment keeps the liberals from gaining what they can’t get at the ballot box through their wacko judges.