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OUR OPINION: AMENDMENT BANNING GAY MARRIAGES IS UNNECESSARY
Posted on Wed, Feb. 16, 2005
The drive to ban gay marriages with a state constitutional amendment, announced Monday by a coalition of conservative groups, is wrong-headed by every measure of reason. The Florida Legislature has already banned such unions between gays and lesbians by state statute.
We strongly disagreed with the Legislature's action, which made it legal to deny rights to people based on their sexual orientation. But the law does exist, thus making any initiative to institutionalize such discrimination in our Constitution repugnant and offensive as well as wasteful…
…Only a vigorous resistance by fair-minded Floridians who respect our Constitution will repel this call to further institutionalize a hateful form of discrimination.
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
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