Hundreds Protest Marriage Proposal (State of GA gay marriage ban)

[CShine]

Hundreds of gay and lesbian activists rallied at the state Capitol on Friday to fight what they call an attempt to legalize discrimination.

The issue is a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage in the state. After meeting in the Capitol Rotunda, the activists fanned out to the doors of the Senate and House, sending notes asking their elected officials to come out and talk. For those who didn't comply, the protesters waited.

"I'm here because I am gay," said James Goodwin, waiting to talk to his senator, Ginger Collins (R-Atlanta). "And I should be allowed to marry the person I love. This legislation reinforces the idea that the relationship that I have with my boyfriend is of less value that a heterosexual relationship."

Senate Majority Leader Bill Stephens (R-Canton) proposed the amendment, which has not been debated by legislators yet. Georgia already has a law barring marriage between same-sex partners, but Stephens and other lawmakers want to remove any possibility that a judge could overturn it

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/legislature/0104/31leggay.html

[pacifictiger]

1. Isn't Georgia

the same state trying to the "evolution" out of school textbooks too?
Theocratic government here we come. These people MUST be defeated in Novemeber!

[saltpoint]

2. I love your signature line.

It's just great. Since the Far Right in Georgia won't thank you, I'll thank you.

[Heritic]

3. Yeah, as I recall...

Weren't they also the state that had the 10 commandment fiasco? What happened to S
eperation of Church and State?

[saltpoint]

5. I think the Ten Commandments thing --

-- was in Alabama, but the two states are right next door to each other, and I guess there's no zip code to bigotry.

[La_Serpiente]

4. The are also changing the history textbooks as well

Dumbing down our past doesn't serve our future

Dumbing down our past doesn't serve our future
The state has unveiled sweeping changes it wants to make in the K-12 curriculum. A high school history teacher says the plan will gut the subject he has taught for 25 years. But the state superintendent says the new curriculum will make Georgia's schools the best.

By JOSEPH JARRELL

The Georgia Department of Education recently unveiled a draft of the new high school history curriculum. Officials tout it as "world class." It's not. They describe it as "rigorous" and "strengthened." It's neither. With much fanfare, spokesmen say it will raise expectations. It won't.


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Dumbing down our past doesn't serve our future

[Heritic]

6. Oh yeah...

Curses, oh well, Alabama it is. They're all the same over there anyways (if your from "over there" and your reading this, your exempt like a Senator's son during a draft).