WisPoliticsMadison - Today, Chris Taylor, candidate for the open 48th Assembly District seat, praised the passage of New York’s Marriage Equality Legislation. When the law takes effect in July, New York will become the sixth state in the nation to allow gay marriage:
“New York has set an example for the rest of the nation about extending full human rights to its citizens. The right to marry is fundamental. No individual should be denied the right to make one of the most personal decisions in their life because of their sexual orientation.
In Wisconsin, we have an awful blemish on our constitution that enshrines discrimination against our fellow citizens because of the gender of the person they love. As the next Representative of the 48th Assembly District, I will work with my colleagues to amend our constitution and remove that discrimination. Too many LGBT families in Wisconsin struggle to hold their families together because of unfairness and discrimination. Working together, we can ensure passage of full marriage equality legislation and other policies that guarantee LGBT families the dignity, respect and legal protections they deserve.
I look forward to a future day when my young sons will live in a Wisconsin that does not tolerate discrimination and has a constitution that protects, rather than denies, people’s basic rights.”
The marriage amendment passed 60-40% in Wisconsin in 2006. It would take a great big swing to have any affect on that. Of course if you're just trying to rally the troops in Madison I'm sure it sounds good.
HT WisFamilyAction
2 comments:
Taylor is also the public policy director for PPWI.
Hey, he's running in Madison. He thinks he can get votes with a line like that. Ultimately, that is what representative democracy is all about. I bet the 48th District didn't go 60 / 40 in favor. You are probably right that he won't get far with that agenda in the legislature.
I would bet none of the candidates in the recall elections are talking about gay marriage. It's not good politics, and its not worth the attention.
I voted no on the amendment, because I consider it a legitimate matter for legislative action. If a majority of the people are willing to recognize two more human relationships legally, then we should. If not, then we don't have to. It is not THE SAME THING as a marriage. It is not about equal protection of the laws. Any man and any woman is free to marry. If some want something else, well, maybe it is or maybe it isn't worth granting that some public recognition.
IF I lived in California, I might have very reluctantly voted for Prop 8, because that is the only way to over-rule a Supreme Court that overstepped its bounds. But I see no chance the Wisconsin Supreme Court will do anything of the kind.
I would have preferred to rewrite Prop 8. There is no need to ban anything. Just affirm that marriage, as defined since the foundation of the republic, the union of one man and one woman, is equally available to any man and woman who wish to enter into it. Equal protection of the laws does not entitle other human relationships that the same men and women might choose to enter into to identical recognition.
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